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Nepal flash flood live updates: search on for hundreds missing near Tibet border as officials warn death toll could rise higher

Latest update from The Guardian World: Nepal flash flood: more than 350 killed amid warning of fresh danger from rising lake water – latest updates. Authorities say water rising at lake at site of disaster and it could burst Nearly 1,400 missing, mostly tourists, and hundreds killed Visual guide: how the deadly flooding unfolded Tell us: have you been affected by the flash floods. Latest update from The Guardian World: Nepal flash flood live updates: more than 1,000 people missing after glacial collapse at Tibet border. Latest update from The Guardian World: Nepal flash flood live updates: more than 500 missing in Tibet, reports China, amid search for hundreds of tourists. Authorities say water rising at lake at site of disaster and it could burst Nearly 1,400 missing, mostly tourists, and hundreds killed Visual guide: how the deadly flooding unfolded Tell us: have you been affected by the flash floods? A lake ⁠formed at the ⁠site ⁠where the flood in Nepal occurred ⁠is rising and is ⁠at risk of bursting, the country’s disaster authority said, as it appealed to residents and rescuers to stay away from the river banks. The blockage ⁠of a river on Wednesday led to the lake’s formation, Reuters reports the authority said. Meanwhile Abi Narayan Kafle, the central spokesperson for the Nepal Police, has told AP 353 people were now confirmed dead in the floods as of Thursday.

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A total ⁠of ⁠270 bodies have been ⁠found by authorities in ⁠Nepal after a torrential flood swept through the Himalayan border areas of the country and China’s Tibet, Reuters reports, citing what Nepal’s police ⁠said in a post on X. It said Red Cross teams are on the ground with food, safe drinking water, emergency shelter materials, first aid and other essential supplies, though roads are damaged and access is “extremely limited”. double quotation mark Severe flash floods have devastated northern Nepal, destroying homes, washing away bridges and cutting off communities. double quotation mark Nepal Red Cross teams are responding with food, safe drinking water, emergency shelter materials, first aid and other essential supplies, despite damaged roads and extremely limited access.

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As accounts from witnesses of the disaster emerge, one survivor has described being rescued while his wife is still missing, and another described being saved by clinging to a mango tree. “It was a huge gush of mud coming straight towards us,” said Keshav Prasad Baral, 68, who was being treated at a small hospital. “As it got closer, it kept rising higher and higher. When I saw it enter our home, I tried to grab my ⁠wife’s hand and take her to the terrace. But she was swept away by the mud. Four or five hours later, a helicopter came to rescue me. My wife is still somewhere beneath the mud.
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More here on the cause of the disaster after the US Geological Survey (USGS) said there had been a glacial collapse that caused seismic activity and catastrophic impacts in Nepal and Tibet. The agency said seismic activity initially reported as an earthquake “was instead a glacial collapse and debris flow” that “caused subsequent catastrophic impacts downstream”. The cause of the disaster was not immediately clear in the hours after it occurred early on Wednesday, but Nepalese foreign minister Shishir Khanal had said an earthquake likely triggered a landslide, in turn blocking a river and sending water gushing downstream. Other theories advanced included a glacial lake flood – when a fragile debris wall holding back glacier melt collapses – or an ice avalanche, as AFP reports. The USGS said on Thursday that “a magnitude 5.2 seismic event occurred near the border between Nepal and China” on Wednesday at 8.37am local time.
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Latest update from The Guardian World: Nepal flash flood live updates: more than 500 missing in Tibet, reports China, amid search for hundreds of tourists. Hundreds of foreign nationals are missing in Nepal after the catastrophic flash flooding killed at least 160 people. Hikers and climbers from worldwide travel to the Himalayan nation to test themselves on some of the world’s highest peaks, Mount Everest among them. Here’s the latest on how many people are still out of contact in Nepal, care of Agence France-Presse. Chinese state media has said separately that in Tibet’s Gyirong ⁠county the number of missing had risen to 558, including 260 foreign nationals. India According to the Nepal tourism board, 142 nationals from neighbouring India were missing.
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Latest update from The Guardian World: Nepal flash flood live updates: more than 1,000 people missing after glacial collapse at Tibet border. Latest update from The Guardian World: Nepal flash flood live updates: more than 500 missing in Tibet, reports China, amid search for hundreds of tourists. Australia’s foreign minister ⁠has said at least 34 Australians in Nepal ⁠are missing but information there is “very limited”. Penny Wong said: We understand these Australians are part of separate pilgrimage and tour groups. At this stage, access and information are very limited given the scale of disaster … we are urgently seeking to confirm the welfare and whereabouts of Australians. Himalayan Glacier Trekking, a tourism agency operating in the area, confirmed 15 of the missing Australians were on a religious tour to Mount Kailash it was organising. The group also included people from India, the US, Canada and Singapore.
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Latest update from The Guardian World: Nepal flash flood live updates: more than 1,000 people missing after glacial collapse at Tibet border. Latest update from The Guardian World: Nepal flash flood live updates: more than 500 missing in Tibet, reports China, amid search for hundreds of tourists. Latest update from The Guardian World: At least 157 people dead and hundreds of tourists among missing after roads, bridges and power plants swept away Nepal-Tibet floods – latest updates At least 157 people have been killed and hundreds, including large numbers of foreign tourists, are missing after flash floods ⁠hit the Himalayan border areas of ⁠Nepal and Tibet in China, police have said, with parts of India also at risk. Nearly 100 ⁠Chinese nationals were missing in Nepal in ⁠the ⁠area affected by a massive mudslide and flooding, ⁠China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday. Missing ⁠foreigners on the Chinese side include tourists, pilgrims and other personnel, and China is in close communication with Nepal on search and rescue while informing relevant embassies of the situation, foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said at a regular press conference in Beijing.
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Latest update from The Guardian World: Nepal flash flood: more than 350 killed amid warning of fresh danger from rising lake water – latest updates. Authorities say water rising at lake at site of disaster and it could burst Nearly 1,400 missing, mostly tourists, and hundreds killed Visual guide: how the deadly flooding unfolded Tell us: have you been affected by the flash floods. Latest update from The Guardian World: Nepal flash flood live updates: more than 1,000 people missing after glacial collapse at Tibet border. Latest update from The Guardian World: Nepal flash flood live updates: more than 500 missing in Tibet, reports China, amid search for hundreds of tourists. Authorities say water rising at lake at site of disaster and it could burst Nearly 1,400 missing, mostly tourists, and hundreds killed Visual guide: how the deadly flooding unfolded Tell us: have you been affected by the flash floods? A lake ⁠formed at the ⁠site ⁠where the flood in Nepal occurred ⁠is rising and is ⁠at risk of bursting, the country’s disaster authority said, as it appealed to residents and rescuers to stay away from the river banks. The blockage ⁠of a river on Wednesday led to the lake’s formation, Reuters reports the authority said. Meanwhile Abi Narayan Kafle, the central spokesperson for the Nepal Police, has told AP 353 people were now confirmed dead in the floods as of Thursday.
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