'My wife is still somewhere beneath the mud'

Keshav Prasad Baral says the flood at the Nepal-Tibet border looked like a "huge gush of mud coming straight towards us". Speaking to Reuters news agency while being treated at a small hospital, the 68-year-old says the water rose "higher and higher" before it entered his home. He adds that he tried to grab his wife's hand but she was "swept away", adding that the mud reached the top floor of his home before subsiding about an hour later. "Four or five hours la