Nepal flood recap: 600 dead and 2,000 missing as new footage shows people fleeing before floodwaters hit settlement and destroy it in minutes

Footage has emerged showing locals sprinting for their lives as a catastrophic flood tore through a town in Nepal’s Rasuwa region on Wednesday and has killed 600 people.

Nepal is facing what officials described as a scene of ‘devastation beyond imagination’ after a glacier collapse unleashed a ‘tsunami from the sky’, sending torrents of water crashing through villages and tourist hotspots.

The deadly deluge, reported to have surged as high as 650ft, has left 1,924 people missing in one of the country’s worst natural disasters in recent memory.

Among the missing are 33 British nationals, including a 13-year-old schoolgirl from Surrey who is

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