Nepal flash flood: more than 350 killed amid warning of fresh danger from rising lake water – latest updates

Authorities say water rising at lake at site of disaster and it could burst

• Nearly 1,400 missing, mostly tourists, and hundreds killed

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Eyewitness accounts have been emerging from the Tibetan side of the border, with a woman saying she was travelling from Gyirong town towards Nepal on Wednesday morning when her group encountered the flood about 4km from Gyirong port.

“Trees and electricity poles had already been knocked down, and the flood water was bearing down on us. We didn’t dare turn around, so we could only reverse,” the woman, surnamed Fang, told Xiaoxiang Morning News.

I was really scared. My whole body was trembling.