Nepal's Tourism Board said 517 foreigners remained out of contact on Aug. 27, more than 24 hours after a tsunami-like wall of water and mud swept through villages and towns along the Bhote Koshi and Trishuli rivers on the Nepal-Tibet border.

Twelve British citizens appear on a provisional list of travellers Nepali authorities have been unable to contact following the flash flood and landslides that struck the border…

Several more are feared dead after several villages along the Bhotekoshi river were swept away.

Villages and roads swept away as officials warn of 'major casualties'