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Ajay Devgn, Manisha Koirala and Sonu Sood are traumatised with the current crisis in Nepal. Read to know why.

Sonu Sood boarded a flight from Mumbai to Kathmandu at 11 am, accompanied by his Nepalese chauffeur and lieutenant of two decades, Chaudhary. Speaking to The Free Press Journal, the actor said, “Over the next two days, I am scheduled to visit around 5-6 areas that are among the worst-hit by the devastating floods. Chaudhary, who is my chauffeur and almost a family member now, is Nepali. Almost in tears, he has been updating me continuously on the grim situation there.”

August 26—when disaster struck

Exactly a week ago, disaster struck the border areas around Nepal and Tibet. Catastrophe struck when debris and water flooded those areas, triggered by rapid slope failure involving a glacier melting in Langtang National Park, Nepal, near the Chinese border. This went downstream, flooding the Lhende Khola and Trishuli Khola rivers on the Nepal-Tibet border. A rough estimate shows that around 4,000 people of different nationalities have gone missing. The grim news is that at least a thousand lives were lost, and the death toll is steadily climbing. Several Indians, too, who undertook the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, are still to be accounted for.

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