Two American tourists described how mountain floodwaters suddenly "poured down like a tsunami", sweeping away everything, and how they survived after their guide led them to higher ground.
The family of Australian tourist Cara Severino was overjoyed by news of their daughter's survival after two days without contact during Nepal's flash floods.
Nepal police rescued a 6-year-old girl who miraculously survived a flash flood, found trapped in debris three days after the disaster when her cries were heard.
China reports that a landslide-dammed lake formed upstream after a flash flood has overflowed, prompting Nepal to urge rescue forces and downstream residents to move to higher ground.
Experts report that the powerful flood in Nepal, laden with mud, sand, gravel, and boulders, resembles high-speed liquid concrete, possessing twice the destructive force of water.