NEARLY 4000 PEOPLE MISSING
Nearly 4,000 people are missing in Nepal following the collapse of a Himalayan glacier on the border with China that triggered a tsunami-like wall of freezing water and debris that killed more than 1,000 in the region.
The family of Chandra Bahadur Newar also conducted his funeral in a similar manner.
Truck driver Newar, 35, was in Nepal’s border town of Timure en route to China when the disaster struck. He last spoke to his family the night before the floods.
“He had called after dinner as he always did,” said his wife, Dolma Newar Tamang. “He had said he would be back in not more than a week.”
When Tamang did not…
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