Trishuli/kathmandu, Aug. 27 -- Early Thursday morning, a crowd gathered at the Nepali Army's military training centre in Maithali, Nuwakot. Traffic police struggled to manage the growing number of relatives searching for family members who have been missing in the Bhotekoshi flash flood since Wednesday morning.

Some asked whether their family members' names appeared on the army's list of rescued people. Others pleaded with officials to search for their missing relatives and find out what had happened to them.

Some had come looking for their loved ones who had travelled to Gosainkunda for Janai Purnima. Others sought help with rescue of people believed to be trapped inside hydropower projects and tunnels. Many left the names and details ...