Nearly 3,000 Missing as Nepal-China Flood Rescue Enters Fourth Day
Rescuers are racing to find nearly 3,000 people missing as floodwaters and debris destroyed towns, hydropower sites and border crossings, officials said.
- On Friday, Nepali and Chinese rescue teams continued operations to retrieve survivors from catastrophic flash floods that killed nearly 600 people and left almost 2,500 missing along the border.
- A high-altitude glacier collapse triggered a magnitude 5.2 rockfall on Wednesday that flattened the border crossing near Gyirong Port, burying travelers under mud and debris.
- Nepali army rescuers extracted 350 people from a tunnel at the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project, where more than 100 were initially trapped by thick mud. More than 3,700 people have been rescued overall.
- Families await news of more than 500 missing foreigners as regional support arrives. Sri Lanka sent $1 million in immediate aid to the Nepal government, according to Kanni Wignaraja, United Nations regional director.
- Authorities remain on high alert for secondary flooding from a newly formed lake at 2,950 meters elevation that is overflowing. Rescue workers were ordered to stop temporarily Friday as experts warn of a burst dam on the Tibet side.
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On the 29th (local time), the fourth day since massive floods struck the Himalayan mountain region on the Nepal-China border, the death toll in both countries rose to 682. According to AP and AFP, Nepalese disaster authorities announced that 675 people had died as of that day due to the large-scale floods that occurred in the central Bagmati region on the 26th. On the same day, in Keelung County, Shigatse City, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, wh…
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Toronto SunRescuers claw through mud as missing toll from Nepal, China flood nears 3,000
Rescuers in Nepal and China were battling on Saturday to locate thousands of people missing days after a deadly, tsunami-like wall of water and debris swept through the Himalayan region, engulfing entire villages.
Rescue teams in Nepal and China are still fighting this Saturday to locate thousands of people after the deadly avalanche that swept through a border area of the Himalayas in the middle of the week and swallowed up entire villages.
Rescuers search for thousands following deadly Nepal-China flood
As rescue efforts in communities buried by catastrophic flash floods along the border between Nepal and China entered their fourth day on Saturday, authorities continued finding survivors and transporting them to safety. The death toll and the number of people unaccounted for continued to rise.
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