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Families desperately search for loved ones swept away in Nepal floods

Authorities in Nepal continued mass burials after catastrophic floods roared down high mountain valleys in a vast torrent of destruction. The death toll is now over 1,000 people, with thousands still missing. Across the border in China, which has been less transparent, officials report just 16 deaths, but nearly 550 missing. Neil Connery of ITV News reports from the disaster zone. Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy.

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Scoop News DeskNepal · Published Tuesday, September 1, 2026 at 10:40 PM UTCUpdated Thursday, September 3, 2026 at 11:11 AM UTC

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Back up in the village where Pramod is staying with his uncle, high above the destruction, his father is still traumatized by what he witnessed. In a remote village, three generations of one family grieve together, struggling to make sense of this disaster, four of their number missing, feared dead. Purusottam Poudel, Family Member of Victims (through interpreter): I heard the flood warnings and tried to call my family.

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