KATHMANDU — Severe monsoon floods and catastrophic landslides across Nepal have pushed the death toll close to 400, leaving thousands displaced and mountain communities entirely cut off.

Emergency rescue teams are racing against the clock as a dangerously swelling lake threatens to breach, risking a fresh deluge across already devastated low-lying valleys.

International anxiety is mounting, with foreign nationals from over two dozen countries reported missing, including an estimated 290 Indian citizens stranded in remote disaster zones.