Survivors Describe Race to Escape Nepal–Tibet Flood as Families Search for Missing

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The road ahead was already disappearing when a woman surnamed Fang and others in a vehicle came within about 2.5 miles of Gyirong Port on the Nepal–Tibet border on Aug. 26. Trees and utility poles had fallen across the route. Then she saw the water coming. “Water carrying everything with it was chasing us,” Fang told state-owned Chinese outlet Xiaoxiang Morning Herald. There was no room to turn the vehicle around, she said, so the driver began backing up. The car kept reversing for nearly two miles. Only then, Fang said, did the force of the water begin to ease. Fang said she had left Gyirong town around 10 a.m. with a group traveling toward Nepal. They had planned to leave an hour earlier but were delayed....

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