Varanasi resident Shivani Chaurasia watched her family’s life in Nepal collapse as floodwaters swept through the Trishuli area. Her father Ashok, who has run a cloth business there for nearly two decades, lost his three-storeyed rented house and business worth around ₹4.5 crore, she said.

Tourists from West Bengal, Maharashtra and Kerala have recounted landslides, flash floods and perilous journeys after being stranded in Nepal.

A week after a catastrophic flood tore through Nepal’s Himalayan valleys, thousands remain missing and rescue teams are still searching for survivors. CNA meets families waiting…