At least 49 people have died and scores of others are missing in Nepal due to severe floods and landslides triggered by late monsoon rains, authorities said. According to Nepal police spokesperson Dan Bahadur Karki, at least 36 people remain missing across various regions of the Himalayan nation since late Friday. He said a total of 34 have been injured. “We have rescued 1,053 people affected by floods and landslides to safety in the Kathmandu Valley, but we are still awaiting data from the rest of the country,” Karki told dpa. Senior officials held an emergency meeting on Saturday to assess t…