DEVASTATING: landslides sweep away homes after 16 INCHES of rain falls in a single day

More than 100 people have died in several days of devastating floods that have sparked landslides, sweeping away homes and roads in India and Nepal.

In Uttarakhand, 46 people were reported dead and another 11 missing today, including a family of five whose house was buried in a colossal wave of mud and rocks.

Dramatic footage showed a digger hauling a car with people inside out of a fast-flowing flood stream which had torn across the road.

In neighbouring Nepal, 31 people have been killed in the landslides, which experts say are more common because climate change is melting glaciers in the Himalayas.

A thousand miles south in the Indian state of Kerala, there have been at least 39 killed and dams have been forced to open their shutters as the water rises to the danger mark.

Experts say that intense deforestation for the construction of hydroelectric dams in the region has made the rainfall more dangerous than ever.

In Uttarakhand, a landslide in the northern Almora district killed five people after a wall of mud demolished and engulfed their home.

At least six others were killed on Monday in two remote districts of the Himalayan state.

The Indian Meteorological Department extended and widened its weather alert on Tuesday, predicting heavy to very heavy rainfall in the region.

The weather office said several areas were drenched by more than 16 inches of rainfall on Monday, causing landslides and flooding.

Authorities ordered the closure of schools and banned all religious and tourist activities in the state.

Television footage and social media videos showed residents wading through knee-deep water near Nainital lake, a tourist hotspot, and the Ganges bursting its banks in Rishikesh.

More than 100 tourists were stuck inside a resort in Ramgarh after the overflowing Kosi river deluged several areas.

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