Emergency search: the devastating floods in Nepal and Tibet have claimed hundreds of lives, with thousands still missing – including a pilgrimage group fro Coulsdon
All 16 members of a Coulsdon Hindu temple pilgrimage are feared to be among the thousands who are missing, one week after floods in the mountains of the Tibet and Nepal border region devastated whole communities and buried entire villages under tons of mud.
The group from the Coulsdon Mandir included pilgrims aged between 18 and 65.
It was only yesterday that rescue workers first managed to reach some of the more remote Himalayan villages in Nepal, as efforts to locate victims have been hampered by continuing bad weather, while many roads have been washed away by the flood surge. Continue reading
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