Nepal observes national day of mourning for victims of flash flood disaster

Title: Nepal observes national day of mourning for victims of flash flood disaster Nepalis observed a nationalist time of mourning for the victims of the flash flood connected Monday, lighting candles to people the past time of the accepted 13-day Hindu mourning period. While flags were flown astatine fractional mast, commemorations were scaled backmost arsenic rescue teams proceed to hunt for survivors. Candlelight vigils were planned for Monday evening. At least 1,287 radical are known to person died aft a flash flood, believed to person been triggered by a glacial collapse, swept done villages successful a Himalayan vale on borderline betwixt Nepal and Tibet. Almost 2 weeks later, more than 5,000 radical are inactive missing. Phanindra Paudel of the National Emergency Operation Centre (NEOC) told the Reuters quality bureau that determination would beryllium "no authorities programmes organised arsenic the rescue and hunt cognition is inactive going connected successful the flood-hit areas." Nepal's president, Ram Chandra Paudel, toured areas devastated by the floods connected Monday, an adjutant told Reuters. The location ministry said that authorities offices, as good as missions abroad, would alert the nationalist emblem at fractional mast to people the last time of the mourning period.