Nepal floods: TN ministers meet in Delhi to oversee rescue ops of those missing from state

Nepal floods: British nurse among 33 missing

The confirmed death toll in Nepal rose to 469 people early on Friday, with almost 1,000 more missing there and in neighbouring Tibet, near where a glacier collapse on Wednesday morning sent a huge torrent of rock, ice, mud and debris cascading ​through Himalayan mountain river systems.

Sitting at home, Shekhar Agrawal dials number after number, hoping one of them might offer clues to the whereabouts of his sister and teenage niece – American tourists who have been missing since catastrophic flash flooding devastated Nepal and Tibet on Wednesday.

Satellite imagery reviewed by disaster officials showed the ice and rock tumbling into a river below, sending a wall of water and debris crashing through settlements, trekking routes and a border crossing used by pilgrims traveling between Nepal and Tibet.