Delivering Aid to Nepal Flood Survivors 'Very, Very Difficult': UN
The UN says isolated communities remain cut off as Nepali security forces and foreign experts search for more than 4,000 missing people.
- On August 26, a catastrophic glacial collapse triggered severe flooding across the China-Nepal border, killing more than 1,200 people and leaving at least 4,757 missing.
- Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal, briefing diplomats in Kathmandu on Thursday, called it a "Himalayan tsunami," saying the reality on the ground is "far more severe than images can convey."
- United Nations Resident Coordinator Lila Pieters Yahia warned that "access has been very, very, very difficult," noting the UN is considering cargo drones and porters to deliver aid to isolated communities.
- More than 21,000 Nepali security personnel continue search and rescue operations in devastated areas, including hydropower tunnels where teams have repeatedly hit dead ends with no survivors confirmed alive.
- Foreign ministry spokesman Lok Bahadur Poudel Chhetri told reporters Thursday that specialized international assistance, including temporary bridges and DNA testing kits, is required to manage the disaster's scale and complexity.
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AlKhaleej Today‘Himalayan tsunami’ leaves Nepal facing vast aid challenge, UN says
KATHMANDU, Sept 4 — The United Nations warned yesterday of the immense challenge of reaching Nepal flood survivors, with destroyed roads forcing aid workers to consider using...
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Delivering aid to Nepal flood survivors 'very, very difficult': UN
More than 1,200 people have been killed and nearly 5,000 are missing on both sides of the China-Nepal border since the catastrophic glacial mountain collapse on August 26, according to tolls by both nations on Thursday. Nearly 600 foreigners from at least 34 countries are among those missing. "It is just incredible -- the magnitude of the disaster, the magnitude of the destruction," UN Resident Coordinator Lila Pieters Yahia told reporters in Ka…
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