About 400 tourists missing, head of Nepal Tourism Board tells BBC

About 400 tourists - including 291 foreigners - are reportedly missing, the head of Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) tells BBC Nepali. Most of them were bound for Kailash Mansarovar in Tibet. "The figure is being updated as reports continue to come in from tour operators running Tibet-bound packages for rescues," says Hikmat Singh Ayer, the board's acting CEO. Those unaccounted for include more than 100 Indians, 17 Malaysians, 12 Britons, four South Africans, and nationals from the United Sta