Nepal Rescuers Hunt Survivors Of Devastating Flood; 162 Dead

Nepal Rescuers Hunt Survivors Of Devastating Flood; 162 Dead  HuffPost

Two Irish tourists are believed missing in the Rasuwa region, where they had been on an excursion.

Rescue workers searched for hundreds of people still missing after a wall of mud and rock collapsed into a river on the Himalayan border of Nepal and China's Tibet a day earlier.

TRISHULI, Nepal/BEIJING: Rescue workers searched for hundreds of people still missing on Thursday after a wall of mud and rock collapsed into ​a river on the Himalayan border of Nepal and China's Tibet a day earlier, triggering catastrophic flooding that swept ‌through mountain towns and valleys, killing scores of peop

Experts warned that a blockage remaining upstream could trigger another flood.

Rescuers search for survivors after devastating Nepal flood  Reuters

(1st UPDATE) Initial reports suggest an earthquake may have caused the disaster, with significant destruction to infrastructure and communities on both sides of the border