Nepal's foreign ministry put 13,583 people rescued after the Bhote Koshi floods. [1] The Tuesday daily update is the named count. Print 13,583. Do not print a closed disaster. Missing and recovered remain open. A daily update is not a last body.

Leave a later higher rescue to the edition that owns a later ministry sheet. A 5.0 jolt amid rescue is a separate sentence, not this 13,583. Print rescued. Print still searching.

Print 13,583. Tuesday is not a closed Nepal book. Hydropower tunnels remain a search, not a last body. Print 13,583 as the named Tuesday ministry hold. Missing remains open. Foreign nationals in the ministry sheet are still a subset, not a closed list. Print still searching as the named Tuesday hold.

Thirteen thousand rescued against uncounted missing: the ministry sheet tells half the story. Hydropower tunnels hold the other half. Tuesday reads both pages.

Rescue counts climb while missing lists shrink; the two lines rarely meet. Tuesday's lines stand apart. The ministry updates both.

Apart lines stay apart; Tuesday reads rescued against still-missing. The ministry sheet is half the story. Not a closed list.

Nepal's daily ministry update still holds 13,583 people rescued after the floods. Missing names have not been crossed off. Rescue totals can climb without ending the search. This is a running count, not a closed disaster.
Tuesday's ministry sheet is 13,583 rescued. Missing names have not been crossed off. A climbing rescue total is not a closed disaster.

Tuesday's ministry sheet is 13,583 rescued. Missing names have not been crossed off. Tuesday's 13,583 is a rescue sheet, not a closed disaster.

-- KENJI NAKAMURA, Tokyo