AMERICANALMANAC (Charles McAdams) - Nepal-China border flood death toll climbs past 580 as rescuers pull mud-caked survivors from Himalayan wreckage
A glacier collapse in the Himalayas triggered catastrophic flash floods along the Nepal-China border, killing nearly 600 people and leaving roughly 2,500 missing, including about 90 Americans, as rescuers struggle to reach survivors buried under walls of mud and debris. Nepal's disaster-management authority put the death toll at 579 by Friday, while Nepali police offered […] The post Nepal-China border flood death toll climbs past 580 as rescuers pull mud-caked survivors from Himalayan wreckage appeared first on American Almanac .
A glacier collapse in the Himalayas triggered catastrophic flash floods along the Nepal-China border, killing nearly 600 people and leaving roughly 2,500 missing, including about 90 Americans, as rescuers struggle to reach survivors buried under walls of mud and debris. Nepal's disaster-management authority put the death toll at 579 by Friday, while Nepali police offered a lower count of 553. China reported seven dead on its side of the border. The gap between the two Nepali figures remained unexplained, but the scale of the disaster was not in dispute: nearly 2,500 people were unaccounted for across both countries, and more than 100 remained trapped inside a hydropower tunnel in Nepal's hardest-hit Rasuwa district. The disaster began…Open