Crowds try to flee a surging wall of mud but have nowhere to go as it hits them with horrific force. Rows of buses and trucks parked nearby are swept aside like toys. Moments later, there is only wreckage and destruction.
\n\nThe shocking surveillance video from the Rasuwagadhi border crossing, which links China’s semiautonomous Tibet region to Nepal, captures the scale of destruction as flash floods swept through Himalayan mountain towns and villages Wednesday, leaving ruins in their wake.
\n\nIn Nepal’s hardest-hit Rasuwa region, videos verified by NBC News show bridges being cracked apart and swept away by the force of raging waters filled with mud and debris. Peaceful, lush green valleys are transformed in an instant with the violence of churning water.
\n\nAboard a bus in Bidur, a passenger captures chaos as the surge appears in the distance: People scream and shout, some running away on foot, as vehicles on the road try to make their escape. Elsewhere, in videos shared by Nepali police, roads and buildings are swept away completely.
\n\nSatellite imagery showed the scale of the flooding, with the basin of the Trishuli River dramatically swelled by mud.
\n\nHundreds of tourists are among the missing in the…
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