Major update issued on 33 Brits missing in horror Nepal floods

Flooding has rocked Nepal (Image: Getty).

What happened

According to The Nepal Tourism Board has, 826 tourists, including 517 foreign nationals, are now missing after enormous floods in the country. As the total number of missing individuals rose from 403 to 826, among them are missing are 33 UK nationals including a 13-year-old girl.

Meanwhile, the operator remarked nine British nationals on one of its tours to the site were among those unaccounted for – four males, aged 14, 50, 50, and 54, and five females, aged 40, 46, 50, 50, and 53. Rescue teams are searching for survivors after a devastating flash flood struck the Nepal-Tibet border region, destroying homes, inundating roads and sweeping away bridges as torrents of mud and water surged through affected communities. The country's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority remarked 165 bodies have so far been recovered after flooding in the Rasuwa district. It borders China's autonomous region of Tibet. The area impacted by the flood includes a popular route towards the Hindu pilgrimage site of Kailash Mansarovar.

The bottom line

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