Nepal Police on Tuesday recovered seven dead bodies following a flood that wreaked havoc and washed away a cross-border bridge connecting Nepal with China. The police announced that 18 people were missing,

The floods hit early Tuesday and caused extensive damage to the Nepal-China Friendship Bridge and the surrounding infrastructure, including the customs yard where hundreds of vehicles and cargo contai

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.