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Nearly 1,500 missing after Nepal-Tibet flash floods
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Nearly 1,500 people, including more than 700 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, causing catastrophic flash floods.
Key facts
- Rescuers used helicopters to search for survivors and deliver food, tents and other emergency supplies to thousands of people cut off after the disaster swept through mountain towns and valleys on Wednesday (August 26, 2026).
- In a bleak personal assessment rather than an official rescue estimate, he put the group’s chances of survival at about 1%, saying the settlements and constructed structures in the area appeared to have been flattened.
- The United States said it would send a disaster-response adviser and provide US$500,000 in assistance
- Nepalese police said the death toll had reached at least 165 and was expected to rise as search teams resumed operations in areas buried beneath mud and debris
Summary
Rescuers used helicopters to search for survivors and deliver food, tents and other emergency supplies to thousands of people cut off after the disaster swept through mountain towns and valleys on Wednesday (August 26, 2026).
Nepalese police said the death toll had reached at least 165 and was expected to rise as search teams resumed operations in areas buried beneath mud and debris. China reported three deaths in Tibet.