Kathmandu, Aug. 27 -- Giri Lal has been left with memories of his wife and four children after Wednesday's flash floods swept through Timure, a border town in Nepal's Rasuwa district.
The 38-year-old was among those caught in a disaster that unfolded with such terrifying speed that, for many who witnessed it, it felt like an earthquake.
The flash floods took away Lal's entire family - wife, two sons and two daughters. Lal, who drives a truck for the local waste management office, is now undergoing treatment at a state-run hospital in Kathmandu - around 160 km from Timure.
Death toll in Nepal flash floods rises to 362 on Thursday, as rescuers raced against time to find hundreds of people still missing in one of the country's worst disasters in recent years. The flash floods struck parts of central Nepal on Wednesday after an ice-rock avalanche upstream blocked the Lhende tributary of the Bhote Koshi River, sending a debris-laden surge downstream. It first hit Rasuwa, near the Nepal-Tibet border, and eventually spread to other districts. "We have been showing their pictures to people and asking if anyone has seen them," Lipa Sapkota said, standing outside the emergency section of Bharatpur Hospital
with a photograph of her brother, Sabi, missing since Wednesday morning.
"There were some dead bodies, but they were not easy to identify because of their condition," Sapkota told the Setopati.com.
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