"I think there are about 45-50 people inside," a Nepali army colonel, who is part of a rescue operation at a hydropower plant on the border, told CNN's Anderson Cooper.

The death toll following a glacier collapse that unleashed a catastrophic mudslide across the Himalayas neared 800 people, authorities said on Aug. 30, as thousands of people remain missing.

Eventually they heard a loud crack that “sounded like explosives detonating inside the mountains,” as Ziha put it, followed by a wall of noise, then a cloud of dust.

Nearly 20 people ⁠were ⁠missing on Monday after ⁠a ferry capsized off northern Cyprus, killing at ​least eight, as divers joined search teams scouring deep waters for any survivors.

At least eight people drowned and 17 were missing after ⁠a ferry carrying almost 270 passengers and crew capsized off northern Cyprus on Sunday, leaving survivors clinging to its overturned hull.

Murat ​Senkul, the mayor of ​the town of Kyrenia, told broadcaster CNN Turk that 159 ​of the 258 passengers ​on board the vessel had been ‌reached.