NUWAKOT, Nepal: The death toll from a flash flood that occurred earlier this week in Nepal has reached 469, Nepal police said on Friday. Rescue teams using heavy machinery dug through mud and debris in Nepalese towns devastated by a flash flood two days ago, as hopes of finding survivors faded and officials worked to reduce the risk of fresh flooding. Almost 1,000 more missing in Nepal and in neighboring Tibet, near where a glacier collapse on Wednesday morning sent a huge torrent of rock, ice, mud and debris cascading through Himalayan mountain river systems.

The death toll in the catastrophic flash floods that struck the Nepal-Tibet border rose on Thursday to 392 people, as rescue teams waded through mud on searching for more than…

At least 1,500 people are missing, many of them foreign tourists, after deadly floods hit the Nepal-Tibet border, sweeping away entire villages