Nepal floods: Number of missing jumps to over 2,400

The number of people missing in Nepal and China leaped to more than 2,400 on Friday, August 28, underscoring the scale of the disaster days after a tsunami-like wall of water and debris swept away villages and killed hundreds. The new figures came as Nepal's disaster authority added 933 hydropower workers to a missing list already including trekkers and pilgrims to Tibet's sacred Mount Kailash. Relatives have crowded hospitals in Nepal's capital in a painful hunt for their loved ones, with posters on the walls bearing photos and names of the missing, Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalists saw. Rescuers were battling through mud even as the threat of new floods loomed, with emergency teams recovering 586 bodies so far, and some of the dead swept downstream as far away as India. The US Geolo