At Kathmandu’s TU Teaching Hospital, families of those missing in the floods wait anxiously for updates.

Holding up her phone, Ram Khumari Shrestha says: “This is my husband. He was off to Rasuwa as a part of his driving job. He was in contact with me until 8 pm yesterday.

“But I couldn’t call him this morning. The phone was switched off,” she told the BBC.

Mani Shrestha Bishwa was also camped out at the hospital on Wednesday night, hoping to hear from his younger brother, cousin, uncle and friend.

“I last contacted them at 8:30 in the morning,” he said.

Trekking guide Sonam Dorjee missed the flood in his home village of Rasiwa Syafru by about an hour. He had left at 08:00 local time.

As he was driving to Kathmandu, Dorjee told the BBC he had heard the sound of floods gushing into their village.

“It [sounded] like an earthquake,” he said. “My house has collapsed… I have seen a photo.”

Dorjee said his sister, Dechen Tamang, was missing, along with her husband and several other family members.

He described the flood as “sudden and devastating”.

“Many survivors are now left without homes and they need emergency rescue and evacuation, as well as food, temporary accommodation and medical support.”

He is praying his sister is found alive. “There is a 10% chance, we hope,” he said.