'The flood took everything': Survivors describe horror
Survivors of the Nepal-Tibet border floods share harrowing accounts of losing family members and property to the sudden disaster. Rescue efforts continue as families wait for news of the missing at local hospitals.
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Figure caption, Watch: People pulled from mud in Nepal after deadly flash floods
Survivors of massive flash floods in Nepal have recounted how they saw their loved ones disappear into torrents of mud.
More than 175 people have died and 800 others are missing after floods wiped out entire villages on the border of Nepal and Tibet on Wednesday, with a force so powerful seismologists initially identified it as an earthquake.
Rescuers trudged through thick mud and debris on Thursday as Nepalese authorities rushed to bring aid and relief supplies to the affected areas.
"My family members were swept away by the flood in front of my eyes," Kalpana Malla from Nepal's Nuwakot district told the BBC.
Malla said her father, mother, sister and sister's children were all claimed by the disaster.
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