Nepal’s mountainous terrain is vulnerable to flash floods. Disasters have gotten deadlier in recent years in part because of changing climate patterns. Erratic rainfall, floods, landslides, avalanches and glacial lake outbursts are becoming more serious.

A deadly flood along Nepal's Bhote Koshi River kills several and leaves many more missing:: Rasuwa District, Nepal:: It was triggered by drainage from a glacial lake in Tibet according to a regional climate bodyAt least 19 people,

The government body's Director General Dinesh Bhatt said that further studies are ongoing in the floods that also washed away the Nepal-China Miteri or friendship bridge. Read on: