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'Saved by a mango tree': How a Nepali labourer survived deadly flash flood

  • A 24-year-old labourer, Bibek Kumal, was swept away by a sudden wall of mud and water but survived by clinging to a mango tree and is now being treated in Kathmandu.
  • The flash floods and landslides near the Nepal–Tibet border have killed at least 95 people, left hundreds missing and more than 114 rescued and hospitalized.
  • Security footage shows a destructive wall of rock, mud and water—possibly triggered after a 4.4-magnitude quake—underscoring Nepal’s monsoon vulnerability.
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