Nepal-Tibet floods: rescuers work through night at hydropower tunnel as number of missing climbs to almost 3,000 – latest updates

Nepali army digs through thick mud that has filled tunnel at plant in Rasuwa, as death toll from flash floods rises to 626 with seven confirmed dead in Tibet

• ‘The flood took everything I have’: survivors grieve for relatives and homes swept away in Nepal

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Nepal’s foreign minister, Shisir Khanal, has appealed for international support to help rebuild the country after the floods, saying reconstruction efforts could run into “billions of dollars” AFP reports.

We reported earlier that Nepal’s finance minister, Swarnim Wagle, said the country could need up to $5bn to rebuild, while stressing that the figure was “just an estimate” as “loss and damage is being assessed”.