Rescuers Dig Into Tunnel as Missing Toll From Nepal, China Disaster Nears 3,000
Rescuers are digging into hydropower tunnels as officials say nearly 3,000 people are missing and 682 bodies have been recovered.
- On Saturday, rescuers in Nepal and China intensified efforts to locate thousands missing after a deadly glacial collapse. Teams focused on the Trishuli 3A and 3B sites, where more than 100 workers may remain trapped in tunnels.
- A glacial collapse on Wednesday at the Nepal-Tibet border triggered a tsunami-like wall of water and debris sweeping through the Himalayan region. The disaster engulfed entire villages, leaving 2,426 people out of contact across the country.
- Authorities listed 933 hydropower workers and 517 foreigners—including trekkers and pilgrims to Mount Kailash—among the missing. Figures from both countries place the total near 3,000, with 682 bodies recovered as of Saturday.
- Home Minister Sudan Gurung confirmed the Nepali army inserted a pipe into a tunnel to provide air to trapped workers. Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal warned reconstruction costs could run into "billions of dollars."
- UN climate chief Simon Steill stated a warming climate is making such tragedies "much more likely, frequent and severe." The disaster underscores how glacial melting increases risks of collapses in fragile mountain environments worldwide.
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Amid destructive floods and landslides that struck the border region between Nepal and China's Tibet, leaving hundreds dead and over 3,000 missing, the death tolls announced by China and Nepal as of the 30th stand at 16 and 675, respectively, showing a 42-fold difference. Regarding the reason for this vast discrepancy, despite the same glacier collapsing and the same water flow engulfing both countries, experts suggest that in disaster statistic…
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