The figures are likely to change, which is not uncommon in the chaos after a major disaster

Many of the missing are foreign tourists; US Geological Survey believes the disaster was caused by a glacial collapse.

At least 160 people have been killed, and almost 1500 are reported missing, after a massive wave of floodwaters wiped out villages on the Nepal-Tibet border.

Crews were in a race against time to find nearly 2,000 people unaccounted for