India, Oct. 8 -- The death toll in Himachal Pradesh's Bilaspur district, where a private bus was buried under the debris of a landslide on Tuesday evening, rose to 16 with the recovery of a boy's body on Wednesday morning, officials said.

Search and rescue operations to trace people buried under the debris continued on Wednesday after a huge portion of a mountain gave way and fell on the moving bus in the Bhalughat area near Berthin in Jhandutta tehsil at 6.40pm on Tuesday.

Bilaspur SP Sandeep Dhawal said that the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) worked through the night and recovered 15 bodies from the debris, while the body of the child was found this morning. A manual search is underway with dog squads being pressed into servi...