Nepal flash flood live updates: search on for hundreds missing near Tibet border as officials warn death toll could rise higher

At least 160 people have died, while officials believe 340 foreign nationals from India, the US, UK, Australia, Malaysia and Ukraine among those missing. Follow the latest news

• Flash floods on Nepal-Tibet border leave scores dead and hundreds missing

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As accounts from witnesses of the disaster emerge, one survivor has described being rescued while his wife is still missing, and another described being saved by clinging to a mango tree.

“It was a huge gush of mud coming straight towards us,” said Keshav Prasad Baral, 68, who was being treated at a small hospital. “As it got closer, it kept rising higher and higher.

When I saw it enter our home, I tried to grab my ⁠wife’s hand and take her to the terrace. But she was swept away by the mud.

Four or five hours later, a helicopter came to rescue me. My wife is still somewhere beneath the mud. She’s gone