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Nepal Floods Kill 903 And Leave 4,247 Missing As Rescue Teams Reach Trapped Hydropower Workers
Can crews clear blocked tunnels and reach isolated valleys before more people are lost?
Can crews clear blocked tunnels and reach isolated valleys before more people are lost?
Nepal’s flood disaster has become a race against time in steep mountain terrain, where washed-out roads, collapsed slopes, and blocked tunnels are slowing rescue work and leaving hundreds of workers and residents out of reach. The huge death and missing counts in Nepal and show how a and have turned a border weather event into a regional humanitarian crisis, with officials still trying to reach isolated and other cut-off valleys.
Latest official updates put the at 903 in Nepal alone, with 4,247 people listed there, while Chinese state media reported 16 dead and 546 on the . That pushed the regional tally to at least 919 dead and more than 4,700 , reflecting how fluid the accounting remained as worked through destroyed terrain.
By day seven, rescuers were concentrating on hundreds of workers believed trapped in in the . Officials said about 933 workers were thought to be at 11 , with many in several tunnels, and a was used to try to clear access at one hydropower tunnel.
Officials said roads, slopes, and river crossings remained badly damaged, slowing access to isolated settlements and . Rescue work was increasingly shaped by , where collapsed ground and limited how fast teams could move people, equipment, and medical aid.
Nepali authorities said the death toll reached 579 and nearly 2,000 people were missing, showing how quickly the situation was deteriorating as more remote areas were reached. The updated figures underscored how difficult it was to account for residents, workers, and travelers scattered across cut-off valleys and .
Later updates put the combined toll at more than 390 dead and about 1,500 missing, including large numbers in Tibet and the hardest-hit Nepali districts. kept working through mud and as the scale of the destruction became clearer.
By Thursday, Nepal’s death toll had risen to at least 359, with nearly 1,000 people missing across the affected border region. Officials in Nepal and China also warned of fresh flooding risks from water pooling in nearby lakes, adding to fears of more and .
Nepali authorities first reported at least 162 dead, while Chinese officials said three people were killed and 558 were missing in . The scale of the missing list made clear this was becoming a regional rather than a single-country flood event.
A and intense sent water, mud, and rocks surging down along the Nepal-China border. Early reports showed villages, bridges, and road links being swept away, with deaths confirmed on both sides of the border.