11.   Air Force rescue planes scoured the Himalayan expanse late Monday to survey the devastation and possible access routes to villages after relief trucks were blocked by landslides.

12.   Army patrols set out Wednesday morning for the mine, navigating roads blocked by landslides and washed out by recent flooding.

13.   At least one car was crushed by falling rocks and roads in several places were blocked by landslides.

14.   But communications and some utilities were down in most of the region and some roads were blocked by landslides, police said.

15.   Elsewhere in the East African nation, landslides have blocked roads or left gaping holes in highways, Kimanthi said.

16.   Elsewhere in El Salvador and Guatemala, churches collapsed, electricity failed and walls cracked and roads were blocked by landslides.

17.   Four small towns were virtually isolated because landslides blocked the main access road, the Italian news agency ANSA said.

18.   Helicopters ferried tents, food and fuel to the affected villages since many of the narrow dirt roads around them collapsed or were blocked by landslides.

19.   Helicopters ferried tents, food and fuel to the affected villages in Khorasan province since many of the narrow dirt roads around them collapsed or were blocked by landslides.

20.   However, communications and some utilities were down in most of the region and some roads were blocked by landslides, police said.