A week after a sudden flood devastated several areas in central Nepal, survivors continue to reconstruct the moments leading up to the tragedy. The flood caused deaths and destruction in communities in the country's central region.
Survivor accounts reveal that there was a prior warning that circulated by word of mouth before the deadly flood arrived. The time available to alert the population was extremely short.
According to witnesses, the interval between the initial alert and the flood was just three minutes. This minimal period was likely insufficient for many people to safely escape.
The survivors' reconstruction of events allows us to understand how the speed with which the water arrived contributed to the high number of victims of the catastrophe.
