A casual tea break may have saved the lives of five friends from Chhattisgarh when devastating flash floods swept through Nepal's Bhote Koshi and Trishuli river valleys on August 26.
The brief stop at a hotel in Malekhu town of Dhading district became a narrow escape for the group, who then spent two tense days on higher ground, sleeping in a rented car and watching the swollen Trishuli river carry away vehicles, bodies and debris.
