At least 1,924 people are missing in Nepal following Wednesday’s flash floods, the Nepalese disaster relief agency said yesterday according to the BBC.
Among them are at least 517 foreign nationals, but the situation is fast-moving and different authorities have produced different figures.
The death toll has risen to 579, the disaster relief agency said and at least five people have died in Tibet, with 558 reported missing there.
“Please help us find her” – the brother of one of the missing Britons appealed to local officials to help locate his sister.
A collapsed glacier caused the huge flood wave, local officials told the BBC. The surge tore through houses and roads and destroyed a key Nepal-Tibet border crossing.
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