Watch: Nepal floods: Families search for loved ones amid hope and despair at Kathmandu hospitals

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The death toll in the Nepal flash floods continues to rise, as search efforts continue for over 2,400 missing people, three days after the disaster struck. Inside Kathmandu’s National Trauma Centre, the atmosphere is heavy with confusion, raw hope, and growing dread. Exhausted families clustered around hospital pillars, desperately searching lists of rescued survivors for names they know.

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