Massive Landslide in Nepal-China Border Region Leaves 1,500 Missing, Including Foreigners

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Massive Landslide in Nepal-China Border Region Leaves 1,500 Missing, Including Foreigners
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  1. Nearly 1,500 people, including at least 800 foreigners, are missing across Nepal and China's Tibet, authorities said on Thursday, after a wall of mud and rock collapsed into a Himalayan river, sending catastrophic floods through towns and valleys.

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    Bloomberg

    Deadly Nepal Flood Leaves Hundreds Missing Hundreds of people have been reported killed or missing after a violent flash flood at the border between Nepal and China. (Source: Bloomberg)

    Financial Times

    Hundreds reported missing after flood on Nepal border with China Nepal says more than 50 people confirmed dead, with 384 foreign and local tourists reported missing

  2. "This will go up, as we have resumed the search and more bodies are expected to be recovered," police spokesperson Abi Narayan Kafle told Reuters. Almost 600 foreigners were among 826 people missing in Nepal, police and tourism officials said.

  3. Videos show people swept away while fleeing Security footage captured on the Chinese side of the border showed many people fleeing from a torrent of rock, mud and water that destroyed buildings and vehicles. People seeking information about family members missing from the affected areas of Nuwakot and Dhading gathered outside a Nepali army training centre that was the base for helicopter rescue operations, the images showed. In the affected areas, layers of mud metres thick swathed homes, trees and vehicles. Helicopters ferrying survivors hovered overhead all day.

  4. An initial study of Planet Labs satellite imagery showed a landslide of ice and rock unleashed a flood carrying debris in the Lhende River, about 20 km (12 miles) northeast of the Nepal-China Rasuwagadhi border crossing, Nepal disaster management officials said on X.

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    Rescuers in Nepal used helicopters to search for survivors and drop emergency supplies to thousands cut off after Wednesday's disaster swept a rugged mountainous region thronged by trekkers and pilgrims linking Lhasa in Tibet with the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu. Police said they expected the death toll to rise beyond 165.

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Original Articles (6)

Center Nearly 1,500 missing in Nepal and China after devastating Himalaya flood — CNBC
Center Hundreds missing after flood hits Nepal-Tibet border, 157 bodies recovered — CNBC
Center More Than a Thousand Missing After Deadly Nepal Floods — Bloomberg
Center Deadly Nepal Flood Leaves Hundreds Missing — Bloomberg
Left More Than 1,000 People Missing in Nepal, Tibet After Flash Flooding — Common Dreams
Center Hundreds reported missing after flood on Nepal border with China — Financial Times