PHOTOS: Nepal's rare spring freak storm kills men, tore down houses, toppled trees; death toll now at 29

Every year hundreds die in landslides and floods during Nepal's monsoon season, but storms causing such high casualties in spring are rare. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

According to District Police Office, Parsa, the number of casualties could see a rise as rescue efforts have gained pace. The estimates of infrastructural damages incurred in the disaster are yet to be ascertained as the storm has damaged hundreds of houses, electric pylons, while uprooted trees have obstructed the roads and highways.. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

According to Province 2 Attorney General Dipendra Jha, majority of the 600 injured are from Pheta and Bhulahi Bharwaliya areas in Bara's Pheta Rural Municipality, which have mostly been affected by the hailstorm. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

A freak storm battered several places in Southern Nepal on Sunday, killing 29 people and injuring 600 others as high speed winds tore down houses, flipped vehicles and toppled trees and electricity poles. Here, a woman carries her one-month-old child as she stands at the entrance of her house damaged in rainstorm in Bara district, 125 kilometers (75 miles) south of Kathmandu. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

A woman sits in the middle of the debris of a residential house damaged in the rainstorm. According to officials, 28 people were killed in Bara, 128 kilometers south of Kathmandu, while one person died in neighbouring Parsa. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Massive winds accompanied by hailstorms and rain struck Bara and the adjoining district of Parsa late on Sunday evening. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

High winds flipped cars and blew one passenger bus off a highway, causing fatalities. According to police, many people were either killed after getting buried under rubbles of houses and metal roofs that flung all over the settlements, or after coming under the electric pylons and trees that were uprooted as the disaster advanced. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)