Survivors were airlifted to safety as rescue teams battled bad weather and cleared debris after a devastating glacier-triggered flood hit Nepal’s Himalayan region bordering Tibet. At least 626 people have died in Nepal, with nearly 3,000 still missing, including hundreds of foreign nationals. Nepal now faces an estimated $4–5 billion reconstruction challenge.

New before-and-after satellite images reveal the massive scale of destruction caused by the devastating flash floods that struck Nepal's Himalayan border region.

Nepal-Tibet border floods kill 160, with 403 missing, including 341 foreigners and one Israeli; a survivor says the waters swept away his wife; satellite data points to a glacier…