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.

Monsoon rains have caused severe flooding in Nepal, sweeping away a key bridge connecting the country with China and leaving 20 missing