尼泊尔山洪致超千人死亡，中尼两国伤亡惨重

L CONTINUED MASS BURIALS TODAY, NEARLY ONE WEEK AFTER CATASTROPHIC FLOODS ROARED DOWN HIGH MOUNTAN VALLEYS, IN A VAST TORRENT OF DESTRUCTION. THE DEATH TOLL IS NOW OVER 1,000 WITH THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE STILL MISSING. ACROSS THE BORDER IN CHINA, WHICH HAS BEEN LESS TRANSPARENT, OFFICIALS REPORT JUST 16 DEATHS, BUT NEARLY 550 MISSING. NEIL CONNERY, FROM OUR PARTNERS AT ITV NEWS, REPORTS NOW FROM THE DISASTER ZONE IN NEPAL, FOLLOWING A MAN ON A GRIM SEARCH.

NEIL: IN A REMOTE VILLAGE, THREE GENERATIONS OF ONE FAMILY GRIEVE TOGETHER, STRUGGLING TO MAKE SENSE OF THIS DISASTER. FOUR OF THEIR NUMBER MISSING, FEARED DEAD. PRAMAD POUDEL, IN THE BASEBALL CAP, CAME FROM BRITAIN, WHERE HE LIVES, TO BE WITH HIS FATHER, THE ONLY SURVIVING MEMBER OF HIS IMMEDIATE FAMILY. THIS IS PRAMOD'S MOTHER, BROTHER, AND UNCLE. AND THIS IS HIS WIFE, SUMITRA. THEY MARRIED TWO MONTHS AGO. PRAMOD: BORN AND RAISED HERE.

AS YOU CAN SAY THERE IS NOTHING, NOTHING EXISTS. NEIL: THIS WAS THE SCENE WHICH CONFRONTED PRAMOD WHEN HE CAME BACK TO HIS CHILDHOOD HOME. PRAMOD: IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE. THERE WAS LOTS OF GREENERY, THE CHILDHOOD MEMORY, WHERE I'D GO TO SCHOOL AND, WHERE I GREW UP, MY FRIENDS, MY FAMILY, IT'S ALL BEEN TAKEN AWAY. NEIL: AS HE WALKED THROUGH THE DESTRUCTION IN A NEARBY TOWN, HE TALKS OF HIS WIFE. PRAMOD: SHE WAS LIVING IN CROATIA BEFORE AND SHE HAD A VERY GOOD JOB AND I ASKED HER TO COME HERE AND MARRY ME.

AND NOW SHE'S GONE, YOU KNOW, SO, YEAH, IT'S VERY SAD, YEAH. NEIL: LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT YOUR MOTHER. WHAT TYPE OF PERSON WAS SHE? PRAMOD: OH MY GOD, MAN. NEIL: WHAT OF HIS FATHER, WHO SURVIVED? PRAMOD: HE LOST HIS WHOLE LIFE EARNING, HE LOST HIS FAMILY, HE LOST HIS FRIEND, HE LOVES HIS NEIGHBORHOOD. HE LOST EVERYTHING. NEIL: PRAMOD IS HEADING TO THE RESCUE CENTER TO SEE IF HE CAN GET CLOSER TO HIS VILLAGE TO SEARCH FOR ANY OF HIS MISSING FAMILY.

WE WATCHED AS HE ASKED THE ARMY IF HE COULD BOARD ONE OF THE HELICOPTER FLIGHTS. HE WASN'T SUCCESSFUL TODAY, BUT WILL RETURN. BACK UP IN THE VILLAGE WHERE PRAMOD IS STAYING WITH HIS UNCLE, HIGH ABOVE THE DESTRUCTION, HIS FATHER IS STILL TRAUMATIZED BY WHAT HE WITNESSED.

I HEARD THE FLOOD WARNINGS AND TRIED TO CALL MY FAMILY, BUT I COULDN'T GET THROUGH. I JUMPED ON MY MOTORBIKE TO TRY AND WARN EVERYONE. I SAW THE WAVE IN THE DISTANCE AND RAN UP THE HILL. I SURVIVED BY SECONDS. NEIL: HE SAYS HIS SON IS NOW HIS ONLY REASON TO LIVE.

I'M SO HAPPY TO HAVE HIM. IF IT WASN'T FOR HIM I'D PROBABLY BE DEAD, I STAYED ALIVE FOR HIM. NEIL: PRAMOD AND HIS UNCLE WALKED EIGHT HOURS THROUGH THIS VALLEY TO RESCUE HIS FATHER ON SATURDAY.

HE JUST SUDDENLY SAW HIS SON, AND HE WAS, YOU KNOW, HUGGING HIM AND WITH A BIG CRY. THAT WAS A KIND OF EMOTIONAL MOMENT, I THINK IT'S, IT CANNOT BE DESCRIBED IN WORDS. NEIL: BENEATH THE HIMALAYAS, THE SHADOW WHICH HAS DESCENDED HAS TOUCHED SO MANY FAMILIES LIKE THIS. LOST IN HIS MEMORIES, THE RESCUE HELICOPTERS ABOVE BRING PRAMOD BACK TO THE PRESENT. A BRIEF SMILE, GRATEFUL TO BE AT HIS FATHER