China's President Xi Jinping has called for faster surveys of glaciers and glacial lakes across the Tibetan Plateau to prevent further disasters.

Figures from Nepal and from Chinese authorities in charge of Tibet put the total number of missing at 3,048, with 768 confirmed deaths.

In China, the state media only carried reports of rescue work and nothing about what the flash flood had destroyed and killed in its wake

Nepal Flash Flood Death Count LIVE News Updates: Nearly 676 bodies have so far been found in Nepal and Tibet, with about 3,000 people still unaccounted for.

Devastating floods tore through Nepal and Tibet on Wednesday, leaving hundreds dead and thousands missing.

The 77-member group, led by Isha Foundation, an organisation founded by Indian spiritual leader Jaggi Vasudev, Sadhguru, has remained out of contact.

On Friday, Nepal issued an alert about the risks posed by a large body of water formed in China's Tibet region, following the collapse of a glacier section two days ago.

But given the reluctance of China to share data on rivers and waterflow in the Tibet region, calls are growing for more transparency and sharing of data to prevent loss of lives during natural disasters like a glacier collapse...

Anal Kar (56) and his wife Sanjukta Kar (50) reached Kathmandu from New Delhi on August 18 and were last traced to Timure, near the Nepal-Tibet border.

A group of women from Tamil Nadu were among hundreds of people who were on a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash, a Himalayan peak in Tibet that is considered the home of Lord Shiva.