NUWAKOT, Nepal: Biskila Tamang has not heard from her husband since Wednesday morning. At Maithali Barrack, an army training facility that was turned into a rescue operations center, she stood among more than a thousand people looking to find loved ones who have been missing since a catastrophic flash flood hit Nepal.
“It has been two days and there is no word — not that he is alive, not that he is dead,” she told Arab News. “He was staying with his friends in Timure. There has been no contact since.”
The last time she heard from him, Tamang’s husband was headed for the customs office in Nepal’s Rasuwa district to collect items for a delivery to the capital, Kathmandu.
Not long after, tsunami-like floodwaters and mud swept through villages and towns along Nepal’s Bhote Koshi and Trishuli rivers — including the town of Timure — destroying homes and washing away bridges in the districts of Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading.
For the past few days, people have crowded the army center in Nuwakot for the same reason: someone in their family had gone missing in the deadly deluge.
