Chennai, Aug. 27 -- Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay on Thursday directed state Home Secretary Ashish Kumar to lead a team to Nepal and coordinate the rescue of Tamils stranded there following flash floods in the Bhote Koshi River in Nepal's Rasuwa district, according to a state government press release.

The Chief Minister held a consultation meeting at the Secretariat to review the rescue efforts for Tamil Nadu residents who had travelled to Nepal for the Kailash Yatra and were stranded following the flash floods.

According to the press release, a total of 103 people from Tamil Nadu travelled to Nepal in two groups. The first group comprised 54 people from Tamil Nadu and three from Puducherry, while the second group consisted o...