The government body's Director General Dinesh Bhatt said that further studies are ongoing in the floods that also washed away the Nepal-China Miteri or friendship bridge. Read on:

Nepal’s mountainous terrain is vulnerable to flash floods. Disasters have gotten deadlier in recent years in part because of changing climate patterns. Erratic rainfall, floods, landslides, avalanches and glacial lake outbursts are becoming more serious.

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) -At least eight people were killed and over two dozen were missing after the Bhote Koshi River flooded, washing away the "Friendship Bridge" that links China and Nepal,