Search continues as number missing in Nepal-Tibet floods rises to 2,478 – as it happened

‘The flood took everything I have’: survivors grieve for relatives and homes swept away in Nepal Visual guide: how the deadly flooding unfolded Tell us: have you been affected by the flash floods? Nepal’s official death toll from Wednesday’s flash flood now stands at 579 people, while China says seven people have died in Tibet, the state Xinhua news agency reported early Saturday. Chinese authorities said also they had evacuated 555 stranded tourists and 499 Chinese residents from Tibet. In India, authorities said they had recovered seven bodies from rivers flowing from Nepal, believed to be flood victims. Scores of Hindu devotees from across the world are among those missing on the border, as many were on a pilgrimage to Tibet’s Mount Kailash. Sivaranjani Muthunathan was travelling by bus with 56 others to the Chinese border when they became stuck in what they thought was a traffic jam. “Then there was fog, smoke, something that seemed to suddenly engulf us,” Muthunathan, 46, told Agence France-Presse on Friday, showing a phone video she recorded of a torrent surging towards her. Around them, vehicles were swept away or buried under mud. We’re wrapping up the Nepal