Kathmandu, July 18 -- The government is working to bring back Nepali citizens stranded in the Tibetan town of Kerung near the Nepal-China border following the July 8 flood and landslides that severed the cross-border link at Rasuwagadhi.

At least nine people were killed while 19 others remain missing in the July 8 Bhotekoshi flood triggered by a sudden burst of previously unnoticed supraglacial lake in Tibet above Rasuwagadhi. Scores of Nepalis working on hydropower projects near the Nepal-China border are now living safely in Kerung with the support of local Chinese authorities.

According to Laxmi Niraula, Nepal's consul general in Lhasa, as many as 91 Nepali citizens, mostly workers and traders, were rescued and are being cared for by...