@guardian: “I started running. Then a wall of water came thundering down as if it was an earthquake,” said Bibek Kumal, a 68-year-old labourer who was working downstream from the worst-hit Rasuwa district, near Nepal’s Himalayan border with Tibet. “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.” Rescuers are searching for nearly 1,400 people, most of them tourists, after the flood, which the US Geological Survey said was caused by “a glacial collapse”, wiped out entire villages and killed at least 356 people. Srijana Gurung, the acting country director of the Plan International Nepal development group, said in a statement that "floods and landslides have always happened in Nepal but the climate crisis is making them far more frequent and intense". Watch our video to see satellite images of before and after the flood and view the full visual analysis of how this flood unfolded via the link in bio.

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