Bardiya, Sept. 2 -- As many as 23 workers from Bardiya, who were stranded after the Bhotekoshi flood in Rasuwa, returned home on Sunday, five days after the disaster.

Among them was 38-year-old Krishna Prasad Chaudhary from ward 2 of Barbardiya Municipality, whose family had spent days anxiously waiting for news of him.

When Chaudhary finally arrived home on Sunday night, his return brought relief to his wife, Bima.

"The news of the devastating flood in Rasuwa left us terrified," she said. "My husband called on Wednesday afternoon from someone else's phone and told us that he had narrowly escaped the flood," she said. "After that, however, we could not reach him on his phone, which left me extremely anxious."

She said she repeatedly c...