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.

Heavy monsoon rains in Nepal's Rasuwa district caused a deadly flash flood, leaving nine dead and around 20 missing. Rescue operations have been launched to evacuate stranded individuals. A burst supraglacial lake near the Nepal-China border is suspected to be the cause,