The death toll from Wednesday’s flash floods in Nepal due to a glacier has exceeded 400, according to foreign media. Nepali police said that information about nearly 1,400 people could not be found and that a significant number of them were expected to be stranded in various places due to roadblocks. It is reported that accurate information about this group could not be obtained due to the breakdown of communication facilities.
About 90 American citizens and 40 Australians were among the missing as of Thursday night, according to diplomatic sources from the two countries. Most of the American and Australian tourists were on a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash in Tibet, a sacred place for Hindus, Buddhists and others, when the accident occurred, Nepali sources said.