Kathmandu, Nepal | AFP

At least 95 people were killed in Nepal on Wednesday after a massive flood tore through the border region with Tibet, a police spokesman told AFP.

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Aftermath of massive flooding that killed at least eight people in Nepal on Wednesday as Chinese state media reported “major casualties” from a mudslide at a Tibet trade hub on China’s side of the nations’ shared border. Credit: Prakash Mathema / AFPTV / AFP

“So far 95 deaths have been reported,” spokesman Abi Narayan Kafle said, adding that some 28 police personnel were also missing.

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