Deadly Flash Floods Leave 1,500 Missing in Nepal-Tibet Border Region
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More than 1,500 people have now been confirmed missing after deadly flash floods hit the Nepal-Tibet border early Wednesday, sweeping away roads, bridges and entire villages. At least 270 people have died in Nepal. In China, authorities say two people have been rescued and the death toll stands at three.
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PBS NewsHourCatastrophic floods kill hundreds in Nepal and Tibet, with more than 1,300 missing Rescue teams searched Thursday for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border, where a deadly torrent of water and mud several stories high swept through communities a day earlier following a glacier collapse.
ABC NewsLONDON -- The death toll continues to climb two days after massive flash flooding obliterated parts of the Nepal-Tibet border region on Wednesday, with at least 469 bodies recovered and nearly 1,000 people still missing, authorities said.
Washington ExaminerChina’s state media previously said 558 people were missing and Nepal’s disaster management authority said Friday that 977 people were missing. Hundreds of them were foreigners in the area to work, trek or make a pilgrimage to a sacred peak.
Washington TimesKATHMANDU, Nepal —The death toll from massive flash floods has risen to 469 in Nepal, police said Friday, as rescuers work to find hundreds of people still missing in the area on the Nepal-China border.
The Guardian USMore than 1,300 people are missing, with the death toll reaching 469 on Friday. More than 500 foreign citizens were among 826 people missing in Nepal, police and tourism officials have said, with Chinese state media reporting that at least 260 of the 558 missing people on the Tibet side of the border were foreign nationals.
Democracy NowWe get a report from Nepal, where at least 547 people are confirmed to have died and over 1,500 are still missing after a glacial collapse on Wednesday sent a wall of ice, mud and rock into a Himalayan river, triggering catastrophic flooding in the Nepal-Tibet border region that swept away entire communities. Nepali authorities say they have rescued more than 3,700 people so far. Geologists say the flash floods were set off by a landslide and glacial avalanche so powerful it set off its own seismic signal. Climate scientists warn the region is warming much faster than the global average, leading to the rapid retreat of glaciers.
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RealClearPoliticsThousands are feared dead after a churning wall of mud, rock and pulverised ice bulldozed down a Himalayan valley straddling the border of Nepal and China.
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Video from the scene show rescuers helping the man, covered in dark brown mud, out of the tunnel by pulling and pushing. He was one of likely dozens trapped in the tunnel.
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Washington ExaminerIn video from the scene, rescuers half-pulled, half-pushed the man covered in dark brown mud out of the tunnel. He was one of likely dozens trapped in the tunnel.
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Some felt the ground shake, then saw a ‘black storm’ Scientists who’ve studied satellite images said bedrock underneath a glacier high in the Himalayan region had collapsed, taking part of the glacier with it. The rockfall was so extreme, it reached a magnitude 5.2 seismic measurement. The rocks and melted water then swelled the rivers in the valleys below, causing a torrent of water that swept buildings, bridges and earth downstream in Tibet and Nepal.
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Washington TimesSome felt the ground shake, then saw a ‘black storm’ Scientists who’ve studied satellite images said bedrock underneath a glacier high in the Himalayan region had collapsed, taking part of the glacier with it. The rockfall was so extreme that it reached a magnitude 5.2 seismic measurement. The rocks and melted water then swelled the rivers in the valleys below, causing a torrent of water that swept buildings, bridges and earth downstream in Tibet and Nepal.
The Guardian USWhat could have caused this deadly flash floods? Satellite imagery suggests a glacier collapse high in the Himalayas was the primary cause, raising concerns that the climate crisis is destabilizing the geology of mountain and polar regions.
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Some of the missing may have been on a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash in Tibet, a sacred site for Hindus, Buddhists and others.
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Washington TimesSome of the missing may have been on a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash in Tibet, a sacred site for Hindus, Buddhists and others.
NPR NewsMany of the missing are Hindu pilgrims, who were journeying to Kailash Mansarovar, a high-altitude site in Tibet revered by Hindus and Buddhists.
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01 ABC News The number of people considered missing has fluctuated significantly as recovery efforts have accelerated.
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02 Washington Examiner About 90 Americans remain unaccounted for, according to the State Department. Officials said they are aware of no U.S. citizen deaths.
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03 Washington Times Nepal police spokesperson Abi Narayan Kafle told The Associated Press that the rescue operation was continuing but with high alert. “It hasn’t stopped,” he said.
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04 The Guardian US South Korean police will re-examine about 310,000 missing persons cases closed over the past three years after an officer was arrested on suspicion of falsifying records to close files on two people who were later found dead. President Lee Jae Myung has ordered an investigation into the police handling of adult missing persons and told the force to draw up a reform plan.
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06 NPR News The U.S. Geological Survey says a glacial collapse triggered the floods, after initially reporting the event as a 4.4 magnitude earthquake.
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07 Democracy Now “Scientists and civil society have been warning about the very fact that these kind of events might happen in the Himalayas,” says Sunil Acharya, a climate and public policy specialist reporting from Kathmandu, Nepal. “This is the result of the delayed global action to deal with climate change.”
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