Two teenagers, a 13-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy, are among the 33 British nationals believed to be unaccounted for.
Essex nurse Rajendra Pudasaini, president of the Non-Resident Nepali Association UK, said his relatives were ‘swept away’ by the floods, as he launched a fundraiser to support those affected by the disaster.
He said Nepal was witnessing an ‘irreplaceable loss’ and the country was ‘paying the price for global warming’.
Bishal Nath Upreti, president of the Nepal Centre for Disaster Management, described the scene as like a ‘tsunami from the sky’ and said villages had been ‘completely wiped out’.
Nepalese officials said bridges have been destroyed and nearly 25 miles of roads have been damaged, which has complicated search efforts.
A number of those missing had been making a pilgrimage to the sacred Hindu site of Mount Kailash, Nepalese tour operator The Trekkers’ Society said.
The operator said nine British nationals on one of its tours to the site were among those unaccounted for: four males, aged 14, 50, 50 and 54, and five women, aged 40, 46, 50, 50 and 53.
Travel logs show three men aged 65, 64 and 52, and seven women aged 44, 47, 51, 60, 63, 63 and 65, are also among the missing British nationals.
Tour operator Kailash Journeys said it had not been able to account for seven UK nationals: five women and two men aged between 18 and 55; travelling with the company.
The FCDO said: ‘British nationals in Nepal should follow local authority advice and exercise caution while travelling.’
