‘Saved by a mango tree’: How a Nepali labourer survived deadly flash flood

Bibek Kumal was working in a toilet pit when a wall of water, mud and rocks swept through the area, carrying him downstream until he became trapped in a mango tree and was later rescued by police.

Nepali labourer Bibek Kumal was digging a toilet pit outside a newly built house on Wednesday when a wall of water, mud and rock came roaring down, sweeping him and everything near him away.