🇳🇵BEST OF THE WEB: At least 273 killed, 1,300 hundred missing, as flash flood hits Nepal and Tibet (UPDATE)
At least 160 people have been killed and hundreds are missing after a huge flash flood swept away villages in Nepal, damaging roads, bridges and power projects in areas near Tibet, authorities said.
Nepali police said late on Wednesday that they had recovered 157 bodies and that officers were continuing to try to move people away from risk areas.
Officials said at least 384 tourists were reported missing as a result of the flash flood, including 291 foreign nationals, among them tourists from the United Kingdom, the United States, India and Malaysia.
Police spokesman Abi Narayan Kafle said that 28 police personnel were also missing.
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