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Desperate Families Search for Missing After Nepal Floods
Rescuers are searching for hundreds missing after a glacial collapse sent a wall of water and mud through border villages, officials said.
- On Wednesday, a tsunami-like wall of water swept through Nepal-Tibet border villages following a glacial collapse, killing at least 165 people. The US Geological Survey confirmed the event as a "catastrophic" debris flow, not an earthquake.
- Many residents in the affected Trishuli River region rely on agriculture and tourism, having rebuilt after Nepal's catastrophic 2015 earthquake. These districts remain vulnerable to disasters, facing high climate-related risks.
- Anxious relatives crowd Kathmandu hospitals as authorities search for 826 missing people, including at least 517 foreign nationals from India and Australia. Officials report 579 travelers are missing from the affected area.
- Rescue teams use earthmovers to reach submerged houses, while the Bir hospital said it is "fully prepared" to treat victims for free. Prime Minister Andy Burnham stated the Government will do "everything we can" to support affected British nationals.
- Across the border in Tibet, Chinese state media reported the "mudslide disaster" killed three people and left 558 missing, including 260 foreigners. The disaster reverberates among the Nepali diaspora of more than 2.1 million worldwide.
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Countries send rescue teams to Nepal to search for missing tourists
Over 1,300 people are still missing in Nepal and Tibet, a day after catastrophic flooding believed to have been caused by a glacier collapse. A total of 800 foreign tourists are missing across the affected Himalayan region, including South Korean, Indian and Australian nationals, with some of those countries sending their own rescue teams to aid in the search.
·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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