Missing soar over 2,400 as threat of new floods looms
NUWAKOT: The number of people missing in Nepal and China leaped to more than 2,400 on Friday, underscoring the scale of the disaster days after a tsunami-like wall of water and debris swept away villages and killed hundreds. Rescuers were battling through mud even as the threat of new floods loomed, with emergency teams recovering 584 bodies so far — and some of the dead swept downstream as far away as India. The new figures came as Nepal's disaster authority added 933 hydropower workers...
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