Dozens of rescuers searched the banks of a mountain river Wednesday looking for people missing after monsoon floods swept away Nepal's main bridge connecting to the country to China and caused at least nine deaths.

At least eight people were killed and over two dozen were missing after the Bhote Koshi River flooded, washing away the "Friendship Bridge" that links China and Nepal, officials said on Tuesday.

The floods hit early Tuesday and caused extensive damage to the Nepal-China Friendship Bridge and the surrounding infrastructure, including the customs yard where hundreds of vehicles and cargo contai