This is like a tsunami in the mountains. A big wave of water like a dinosaur engulfed the whole town one after another. Pictures of this terrible cataclysm of nature are not often seen. It was not foreseen that on a sunny morning such a terrible all-consuming stream of water would come roaring down the mountain like a gored bull.
It was not possible to predict till late night where the death toll will end up in this terrible Harpa bus attack on the Nepal-Tibet border on Wednesday morning. The Nepalese government has reported that 160 bodies have been recovered till night. At least 750 are missing. Among them, 400 are foreigners, including 142 Indians. A group of 32 passengers from Kolkata on the Kailash-Manas Sarovar journey is missing. Shishir Khanal, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tamil Nadu, Nepal, said that the earthquake occurred on the Tibetan border at 8.37 am on Wednesday. An avalanche occurred soon after and within minutes the Harpa Ban came down the Votekoshi River causing a deluge. The Nepali town of Rasuagadhi on the Tibetan border was completely destroyed. This township of approximately 50,000 inhabitants on the other side of the river is almost wiped out. The Nepalese army has started to recover the dead bodies. 37 tourists cannot be found.
In the video that went viral on Wednesday morning, it was seen that the weak Votekoshi river is sweeping away the nearby houses, bridges, settlements and all the signs of urban civilization at the speed of a bull. Gautama Buddha's country is once again in the face of terrible destruction and lamentation. A large number of people travel from Nepal to visit Kailash Manas Sarovar in August-September. Because private companies mainly start from Nepal. A large number of pilgrims traveling with those organizations were hit by the natural calamity on Wednesday. Even in the last news in the evening, their status and location is not completely clear as even the tourism agencies in charge of the Manas Sarovar Yatra are not able to contact the Harappa bus destroyed area.
But how did this terrible Harpa ban? Initial satellite images gave some idea. However, Kathmandu has not published any detailed report yet. However, according to Nepal's disaster management department 'NDRRMA', the disaster started in the Tibetan region in the north. A glacier collapses in the Rasuagadi region on the Sino-Nepal border. Behind which there is a vibration. The NDRRMA estimates that an earthquake of magnitude 4.4 broke the glacier. It was the massive glacier that broke off that initially blocked the course of the open river at Lehond. Later, the melting snow comes down to the bed of the river which flows down the river. Every particle of grass that blocks the way is carried away by floating. First opened at Lehond, then from there the water-mud stream flows into the Bhot Koshi river. On the way, that current gradually increased in Kalebar. Which took a destructive form in the township of Rasua district. Village after village went under water. Houses are buried under black mud. There was no clear indication of how many lives were suffocated beneath it. Most of the images that have reached the outside world of this natural disaster on Mercury are CCTV footage scattered around the ground, which in most cases have been viewed from various locations on the Internet.