Kathmandu, Aug. 29 -- At the entrance near the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital's morgue, Prabin Pakhrin pasted a paper with a photo of his brother-in-law Rajkumar Lama, who has gone missing since Wednesday's flash flood.

Rajkumar was working as a driver in the Timure area bordering the Tibetan side of Nepal. As per Pakhrin, his last known location was Ghattekhola near the Tibetan border at around 8 amon Wednesday morning before the flood swept the hillside residential area.

"He was working as a driver there. One of his colleagues who survived said that he (Lama) was in Timure till 8 am that morning and my brother went towards China, a place called the Ghattekhola (Nepal) and then he has been out of contact. We haven't received an...