Nepal marks national mourning day after deadly flood

Grief-stricken Nepalis entered the traditional Hindu last day of mourning on Monday for the hundreds who died in the catastrophic flood along the country's border with China even as the government kept search operations going after four miracle rescues in recent days.



Government offices in the Hindu majority nation of 30 million people and at missions abroad would fly the national flag at half-mast to mark the 13th day after death.



The day is considered the final day of mourning by the faithful, who commemorate it with rituals and food offerings.



A huge wall of mud and rock, triggered by a glacier breaking off, collapsed into a river on the Himalayan border of Nepal and China's Tibet on August 26, washing away towns and villages and burying roads and highways under piles of mud and debris.



At least 1,380 people have been killed by the mudslide and more than 5,500 are missing. I



n recent days, search teams in Nepal have rescued four people, including a Chinese national who was pulled from a tunnel on Saturday.



The others were two hydropower workers rescued from another tunnel on Friday and a Nepali woman pulled out from her buried house on Saturday.