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Nepal Flood Toll Passes 1,398 as More Survivors Found
Rescuers pulled four survivors from buried hydropower sites in 48 hours as more than 5,500 people remained missing, officials said.
- Rescuers pulled four survivors from disaster zones over the weekend, forcing authorities to reverse plans to shift toward rehabilitation and resume active search-and-rescue operations.
- Following the August 26 glacier collapse in the Himalayas, the death toll has reached at least 1,398 across Nepal and China's Tibet Autonomous Region, with more than 5,500 people still missing.
- Chinese hydropower worker Lu Haitao was freed from 225 meters inside a flooded tunnel in Rasuwa district, where hundreds of workers remain trapped across roughly a dozen wrecked hydropower projects.
- Nepal's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority estimates preliminary losses at about $3 billion, excluding the dozen hydropower projects whose tunnels and powerhouses remain buried or submerged.
- More than 9,300 personnel from India, China, South Korea, and Nepal continue search efforts, while forensic teams assist with mass burials in Bharatpur as the disaster toll continues to rise.
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Floods and landslides along the Nepal-Tibet border have killed more than 1,400 people and injured over 5,000, with hundreds believed to be trapped in a hydroelectric power plant tunnel.
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The long list of missing persons since the deadly flood on 26 August has increased further on Tuesday in Nepal to 1,400 dead 5,326 missing persons.
Overall, the total death toll from this cross-border disaster reached 1,400 people dead and 5,845 people missing.
The number of victims of devastating floods in Nepal on the border with China has risen to at least 1399 dead, in the midst of ongoing search and rescue operations in the hope of finding survivors.
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