Pune, Aug. 29 -- Eleven college students from Nashik narrowly escaped flash floods in Nepal after crossing a bridge over the Trishuli River just two hours before surging waters swept it away. The students, from Peth taluka in rural Nashik, crossed the bridge around 9 am on August 26 after visiting Manakamana temple on their way back to Kathmandu. They later learnt that the bridge had collapsed after the river surged. "We crossed that bridge at around 9 am on August 26 after visiting Manakamana temple. We were on our way back to Kathmandu. Later, we came to know that the bridge had collapsed just two hours after we crossed it. I shudder to think about what could have happened if we had been crossing it when it collapsed," said Arjun Shinde, a member of the group. The students travelled by train from Nashik to Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh and hired a minibus to enter Nepal on August 22. They spent three days in Pokhara before travelling to Manakamana on August 26. They are now stranded in Kathmandu, unable to return to Gorakhpur because debris and mud have damaged several connecting roads. Meanwhile, Maharashtra's disaster management department is trying to ascertain the number of tourists from the state stranded. State disaster management principal secretary Vinita Singal told HT that around 300 tourists from the state had left Tibet on Friday morning and were travelling towards Kathmandu. Six Pune tourists stranded in Jilong city in Tibet left for Kathmandu on Friday....