Nepal: Glacial collapse leaves 3,000 missing
Pacific Asia • Aug 30, 2026, 9:16 AM
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Rescue and relief efforts in Nepal and Tibet have been hampered this Sunday by heavy rain and rising river levels. The latest figures following Wednesday’s flash floods put the death toll at 750, while more than 3,000 people remain missing. Nepal’s disaster authorities are urging rescue teams to “exercise caution”, warning that bad weather, swollen rivers and the threat of further flooding could hamper operations. Shazab Wahlah reports from the town of Bidur.
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Pacific Asia • 2:47 PM
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Nepalese authorities announced on Sunday that the provisional death toll from the devastating floods had risen to more than 730, with nearly 2,500 people still missing.
Among the thousands of people missing is the husband of a 22-year-old woman, who is
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Nepal: Glacial collapse leaves 3,000 missing
Pacific Asia • 9:16 AM
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Rescue and relief efforts in Nepal and Tibet have been hampered this Sunday by heavy rain and rising river levels. The latest figures following Wednesday’s flash floods put the death toll at 750, while more than 3,000 people remain missing. Nepal’s disas
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Death toll rises as 3,000 remain missing in Nepal, China
Pacific Asia • 8:37 AM
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Rescue and relief efforts in Nepal and Tibet have been hampered this Sunday by heavy rain and rising river levels. The latest figures following Wednesday’s flash floods put the death toll at 750, while more than 3,000 people remain missing. Nepal’s disas
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Nepal-Tibet floods live: Nepal begins mass burials as flood death toll surpasses 780
Pacific Asia • 4:59 AM
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Nepal on Sunday began temporarily burying some of the hundreds of bodies recovered from devastating floods after taking DNA samples and marking the remains so families can identify and retrieve them later. Rescue efforts entered a fifth day, with heavy o
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