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.

The devastating flash flood along the Nepal-China border has claimed nine lives, with 19 still missing. Triggered by an unexpected surge from Tibet's Lhende River, the flood disrupted infrastructure,