Nepal flood missing toll jumps to 6,150
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Nepal has raised the number of people missing after its August 26 flash flood to 6,150.
"We have collected details of the missing from district offices and revised the data after verification," said Shanti Mahat, a spokeswoman for the country's crisis authority, to the AFP news agency.
More than 1,400 people are confirmed dead after the flood swept away houses, bridges and people in the Nuwakot and Rasuwa districts and in Tibet.