'Saved by a mango tree': How a Nepali labourer survived deadly flash flood
- Posted on August 27, 2026
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'Saved by a mango tree': How a Nepali labourer survived deadly flash flood
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Nepali labourer Bibek Kumal was digging a toilet pit outside a newly built house on Wednesday when a wall of water, mud and rock came roaring down, sweeping him and everything near him away. Kumal, 24, was working in Bidur, downstream from the worst-hit Rasuwa district, near Nepal's Himalayan border with China's Tibet, when he heard a hissing sound.
