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49 Indians among 261 foreigners missing after flash flood on Tibet-Nepal border

Chinese officials on Sunday said 261 foreign nationals, including 49 Indians, remained unaccounted for after a catastrophic flash flood struck Gyirong Port, one of the main border crossings between Nepal and Tibet, on August 26. The 261 foreigners are...

Through mud & memories, Nepal searches for those lost

People lined up outside hospitals, looking through photographs of the dead pasted on walls; families wading through mud and debris in search of their possessions; a woman carrying a child past damaged buildings; and a dead dog lying amid...

Nepal flash floods: Toll mounts to 669; rescuers race to find thousands missing as fresh flood threat looms

The death toll from flash floods in Nepal rose to 669 on Saturday, with bodies continuing to be recovered as search and rescue operations pressed ahead amid renewed rainfall, rising water levels and fears of further flooding in the...

167 Indians rescued, 287 untraceable as Nepal flashflood toll mounts to 675

The death toll from the flashfloods in Nepal rose to 675 on Saturday while nearly 2,400 people, including 287 Indians, remained missing even as an 11-member Army technical team from India began search and rescue operations to evacuate individuals...

Swept away, buried and stranded: Nepal flood survivors recall desperate escapes

The images of a mud-covered elderly woman being carried to safety in the scoop of a digger have come to symbolise extraordinary accounts of survival in Nepal’s devastating flash floods. The woman, 97-year-old Guna Maya Bohara, was pulled alive...

How a tea break saved 28 Sadhguru’s Isha Group Kailash Mansarovar pilgrims from Nepal floods

An 80-member group associated with spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev’s Isha Foundation was reportedly at the Gyirong immigration centre when a devastating flash flood swept through the Nepal-Tibet border region, while 28 pilgrims from Visakhapatnam have safely returned after...

Nepal glacier collapse caught on camera: How 20-km debris flow reached Gyirong Port

A tourist filming the mountainous landscape in Gyirong County in China’s Xizang Autonomous Region accidentally captured what experts believe was the high-altitude glacier collapse that triggered the deadly mudslide at Gyirong Port on the Nepal-China border. According to a...

Tibet flood videos, survivors’ pleas vanish online as China censors tragedy

A horrifying video showing a wall of floodwater sweeping through Gyirong Port on the Tibet-Nepal border has become a rare visual record of the scale of destruction in China-controlled Tibet. The footage showed hundreds of people running for safety...

Nepal floods: Toll rises to 616 as heavy rain halts rescue ops, morgues run out of space

Authorities have recovered 616 bodies as the death toll of the August 26 flash flood in Rasuwa district of Nepal continues to rise, while 2301 people were injured and rescued, Nepal Police said.

Dearth of space in morgues as death toll continues to rise after Nepal-Tibet flash flood

The Bhotekoshi flood swept bodies downstream across Nepal, overwhelming nationwide morgues. Authorities set up temporary storage facilities in Chitwan and Pokhara, photographing, fingerprinting, and collecting DNA from recovered victims to help families identify and claim their missing relatives amid...