Fears of more flooding in Nepal, 100 Americans among the missing as rescue efforts step up
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KATHMANDU, Authorities in Nepal have warned of the risk of further flooding after heavy rainfall, as China sheds light on the scale of the disaster in its Tibet region.
Key facts
In Nepal, the death toll has risen to 752, with over 2,500 people still missing, including 592 foreign nationals, according to the country’s disaster agency
China has separately reported 16 deaths and 546 people missing in its Tibet region, including 261 foreign nationals
The U.S. Geological Survey later revised that number to the equivalent of a magnitude-5.2 earthquake and said a second seismic event three hours after the first registered as the equivalent of a 4.2
We will not be able to attribute 100% that this is because of climate change, because these changes have been happening” over a long period of time, Neera Shrestha Pradhan, an expert at Nepal’s
Summary
Five days after surging floodwaters from a glacier collapse buried communities across the region in thick mud, rescuers in Nepal were still struggling to reach devastated communities as the full scale of the destruction emerged. “The disaster here is overwhelming,” Ferrin Cole, an operations director at the U.S.-based Crisis Response International, told NBC News on Sunday. Cole said his team would be working to provide help to those in need a locate missing persons, but that working in mud “is pretty dangerous.” “The longer that death and mud are together, diseases breed, and so we’re always aware of that,” he added.