Nepal-Tibet death toll rises amid new flood fears and race to free group trapped in tunnel
Combined toll of more than 750 dead and 3,000 people missing in Nepal and Tibet after devastating flood Nepal-Tibet flash flood – latest updates ‘Their whole village has disappeared’: frantic hunt for survivors in Kathmandu hospital Rescuers in Nepal and Tibet have battled through leg-sucking mud amid the threat of fresh flooding to search for thousands of people still missing after a deadly wall of water swept through the Himalayan border zone, engulfing entire villages. The latest updates on Sunday put the number of missing at 3,048, including hundreds of foreigners. There were 768 confirmed deaths, and reports of some bodies swept downstream possibly as far as India. Nepal said it had begun the grim task of burying some of the hundreds of bodies after first taking DNA samples so that families could later reclaim them and perform traditional funeral rites after identification. More than 3,700 people have been rescued in Nepal so far.
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They are among 933 hydropower workers who are among the missing, according to Nepal’s disaster authority. Engulfing entire villages. Flood warnings were sent to people’s phones early on Sunday as rescue crews worked to clear a highway connecting Kathmandu to one of the areas hit by the devastating floods.
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Combined toll of more than 750 dead and 3,000 people missing in Nepal and Tibet after devastating flood Nepal-Tibet flash flood – latest updates ‘Their whole village has disappeared’: frantic hunt for survivors in Kathmandu hospital Rescuers in Nepal and Tibet have battled through leg-sucking mud amid the threat of fresh flooding to search for thousands of people still missing after a deadly wall of water swept through the Himalayan border zone, engulfing entire villages. The latest updates on Sunday put the number of missing at 3,048, including hundreds of foreigners. There were 768 confirmed deaths, and reports of some bodies swept downstream possibly as far as India. Nepal said it had begun the grim task of burying some of the hundreds of bodies after first taking DNA samples so that families could later reclaim them and perform traditional funeral rites after identification. More than 3,700 people have been rescued in Nepal so far.
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Combined toll of more than 750 dead and 3,000 people missing in Nepal and Tibet after devastating flood Nepal-Tibet flash flood – latest updates ‘Their whole village has disappeared’: frantic hunt for survivors in Kathmandu hospital Rescuers in Nepal and Tibet have battled through leg-sucking mud amid the threat of fresh flooding to search for thousands of people still missing after a deadly wall of water swept through the Himalayan border zone, engulfing entire villages. The latest updates on Sunday put the number of missing at 3,048, including hundreds of foreigners. There were 768 confirmed deaths, and reports of some bodies swept downstream possibly as far as India. Nepal said it had begun the grim task of burying some of the hundreds of bodies after first taking DNA samples so that families could later reclaim them and perform traditional funeral rites after identification. More than 3,700 people have been rescued in Nepal so far.
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Combined toll of more than 750 dead and 3,000 people missing in Nepal and Tibet after devastating flood Nepal-Tibet flash flood – latest updates ‘Their whole village has disappeared’: frantic hunt for survivors in Kathmandu hospital Rescuers in Nepal and Tibet have battled through leg-sucking mud amid the threat of fresh flooding to search for thousands of people still missing after a deadly wall of water swept through the Himalayan border zone, engulfing entire villages. The latest updates on Sunday put the number of missing at 3,048, including hundreds of foreigners. There were 768 confirmed deaths, and reports of some bodies swept downstream possibly as far as India. Nepal said it had begun the grim task of burying some of the hundreds of bodies after first taking DNA samples so that families could later reclaim them and perform traditional funeral rites after identification. More than 3,700 people have been rescued in Nepal so far.
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Combined toll of more than 750 dead and 3,000 people missing in Nepal and Tibet after devastating flood Nepal-Tibet flash flood – latest updates ‘Their whole village has disappeared’: frantic hunt for survivors in Kathmandu hospital Rescuers in Nepal and Tibet have battled through leg-sucking mud amid the threat of fresh flooding to search for thousands of people still missing after a deadly wall of water swept through the Himalayan border zone, engulfing entire villages. The latest updates on Sunday put the number of missing at 3,048, including hundreds of foreigners. There were 768 confirmed deaths, and reports of some bodies swept downstream possibly as far as India. Nepal said it had begun the grim task of burying some of the hundreds of bodies after first taking DNA samples so that families could later reclaim them and perform traditional funeral rites after identification. More than 3,700 people have been rescued in Nepal so far.
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Combined toll of more than 750 dead and 3,000 people missing in Nepal and Tibet after devastating flood Nepal-Tibet flash flood – latest updates ‘Their whole village has disappeared’: frantic hunt for survivors in Kathmandu hospital Rescuers in Nepal and Tibet have battled through leg-sucking mud amid the threat of fresh flooding to search for thousands of people still missing after a deadly wall of water swept through the Himalayan border zone, engulfing entire villages. The latest updates on Sunday put the number of missing at 3,048, including hundreds of foreigners. There were 768 confirmed deaths, and reports of some bodies swept downstream possibly as far as India. Nepal said it had begun the grim task of burying some of the hundreds of bodies after first taking DNA samples so that families could later reclaim them and perform traditional funeral rites after identification. More than 3,700 people have been rescued in Nepal so far.
