By The Straits Times | Created at 2026-08-28 01:16:42 | Updated at 2026-09-19 11:08:36
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DHUNCHE, Nepal – The survivors sat patiently, waiting for their turn to be transported to safety. Some wept. Mothers clutched their babies. Husbands grieved for the wives whose hands they could no longer hold. And some onlookers expressed guilt that they had little to grieve for.
But mostly, on Aug 27, a day after a huge chunk of a glacier fell and triggered a devastating flood and mudslide in Nepal, leaving more than 300 dead and more than 1,400 others missing, people along the border with Tibet were still in disbelief at the bewildering speed with which a river’s fury had upended their lives.
