The deadly flood in Nepal's Bhote Koshi River that killed at least nine people and left more than two dozen missing this week was triggered by the draining of a supraglacial lake in the Tibet region of China, a regional climate monitoring body said on Wednesday.
At least 19 people, including six Chinese workers at the Beijing-aided Inland Container Depot, went missing in Nepal after Tuesday's floods that also washed away the 'Friendship Bridge' that links Nepal and China. China's Xinhua news agency said 11 people were unaccounted for on the Chinese side.
The Kathmandu-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) said that satellite imagery showed the flood originated from the draining of the lake north of Nepal's Langtang Himal range.
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