KATHMANDU, Nepal — Emergency workers have recovered the bodies of 60 people – including nine foreigners – who were killed when Nepal’s earthquake triggered a mudslide that buried a village in the scenic Langtang Valley popular with tourists.

Residents of the village, also called Langtang, said Tuesday that as many as 200 people could have been killed by tons of earth and mud unleashed in the devastating April 25 quake.

A man carries a cupboard after salvaging it from a collapsed house in Nepal on Tuesday. Dawn Habash, of Augusta, is still missing more than a week after the earthquake.

This picture was taken of Dawn Habash on April 24, the day before the Nepal earthquake, by an Italian woman who hiked with the now-missing Augusta yoga instructor but split with her before the quake. Friends and relatives are hoping to hear from Habash, who has not been in contact with them since the April 25 earthquake that killed thousands. Contributed photo

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“The entire village was wiped out by the mudslide. There were some 60 houses there, but they were all buried under rubble. It will be impossible to recover all the bodies,” said Gautam Rimal, the top government official in the Rasuwa district.

Dawn Habash, a Maine yoga instructor, was last seen on the day of the earthquake by a hiking companion in the area of Langtang. Habash had not been found Tuesday.

The Langtang Valley, about 35 miles north of Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, is now about a two-day hike from the nearest town because the landslide has blocked nearby roads.

While helicopters allow easy access, they remain in short supply because of aid missions across parts of Nepal.

The April 25 earthquake killed more than 7,500 people and injured more than 14,000 as it flattened mountain villages and destroyed buildings and archeological sites in Kathmandu.

Authorities say up to one-third of Kathmandu’s residents have left since the quake. In the first days, bus stations were jammed with people fearing aftershocks or trying to get home to relatives in devastated villages.

On Tuesday, there were still people waiting for buses to leave.

“I stayed back here to help out my neighbors and clean up the neighborhood,” said Surya Singh, who was at a large bus station. But now he wants to see the damage in his home village, although with many roads still blocked by landslides, he was unsure if he could get all the way by bus.

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