KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 21 -- The last signals emitted from the mobile phones of the missing Malaysians in Nepal were traced directly to the location hit by a "glacial tsunami", Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan told the Dewan Rakyat.

Fifty-four Malaysians are among the more than 5,500 people still unaccounted for after a major glacial collapse caused a massive flash flood that buried settlements in the country's northern mountainous region bordering Tibet, killing between 1,300 to 1,400 people.

"Where the tsunami (flash floods) path occurred, and the last pings we received, they were all at that location," Mohamad said during Question Time.

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