Nepal flood LIVE: Professional announcing 'tsunami from the sky' with 200m-high waves was sparked by glacier dumping 20-million cubic metres of water – as pictures demonstrate 'devastation past creativeness' 

About 100 missing Indian visitors and 25 Chinese workers have been located by rescuers in Nepal, authorities said on Thursday.

Nearly 100 Chinese nationals are missing in Nepal after massive flooding at the border region, Beijing’s foreign ministry said on Thursday.

‘In the disaster-stricken area on the Nepalese side, the number of Chinese citizens missing is nearly 100,’ ministry spokesman Lin Jian told reporters, adding that China’s embassy in Nepal was ‘seeking further verification’ from Nepalese authorities.

Chinese authorities said earlier Thursday that 558 people, including 260 foreigners, were missing on the Tibet-Nepal border.

Nepal’s police has released a new update stating that 177 bodies have now been recovered.

The statement added that 33 people are receiving treatment and 3,318 police officers have been deployed so far to support rescue operations.

The overall death toll currently stands at 180, with three people killed after the ‘mudslide disaster’ at the Gyirong Port in Tibet.

Overall, in both Nepal and China, more than 1,300 people are missing

The president of the Nepal Centre for Disaster Management said the damage to the infrastructure in the wake of the flash floods has been so extensive only helicopters can be used to reach the site of the disaster.

Asked about how the centre is approaching the disaster given that a lot of the infrastructure was ‘washed away,’ Upreti told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:

Nepal’s Tourism Board has now said 644 foreigners remained out of contact on Thursday, more than 24 hours after a deadly flood tore through the border region with Tibet.

Among the missing are 178 from India, 65 from the United States, 53 from Ukraine, 51 from Malaysia, 35 from Australia, 33 from Britain and 25 from Canada.

In addition, there are nine from Singapore, eight from Germany and eight from Russia.

In a statement on Thursday morning, the Dalai Lama has said he is ‘saddened to learn of the devastating floods,’ adding:

Anxious relatives crowded the corridors of a Kathmandu hospital Thursday as they searched for missing family.

As rescue teams scoured for survivors in the flood-ravaged districts, families moved between hospitals and police helpdesks, desperately hoping for word on those missing.

Among them was Subash Khatani, scanning lists and speaking to officials in the hope of finding news of his elder brother, one of the hundreds unaccounted for after the disaster.

‘My elder brother Ram Sharan Rasaili is among those missing in Rasuwa. That’s why we are out searching for him,’ Khatani said.

Chitra Bahadur Nepali was looking for his nephew Yubraj Sewak, a driver who had been travelling towards the worst-affected Rasuwa district before contact was lost.

‘My nephew was on his way to Rasuwa and was in contact with my sister until about 8:00 am yesterday,’ Nepali, 52, said, showing his photograph on his phone.

‘We have not heard from him since the flood. His name is not on any of the lists we have seen, and another member of our family is also missing.’

The Bir hospital said it would treat all victims for free and was ‘fully prepared’ to handle the surge in patients, local media reported.