Himalayas: the death toll from the devastating flood rises to 43 deaths on the Chinese side
The disaster that occurred at the end of August on the border between China and Nepal also left 519 missing in southwest China, according to the Xinhua news agency.
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The toll from the devastating flood in the Himalayas rises to 43 dead and 519 missing on the Chinese side, while research continues in neighboring Nepal where the toll is even heavier.
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A devastating flood occurred at the end of August on the border between China and Nepal in the Himalayan region.
The toll from the devastating flood that occurred at the end of August in the Himalayas continues to rise. The disaster, which occurred on the border between China and Nepal, left 43 dead on the Chinese side, the state agency Xinhua announced on Sunday September 6. Local authorities in this region located in southwest China report 519 missing. In their previous report, dated Friday, they counted 31 dead and 531 missing.
While journalists from foreign media cannot freely travel to the autonomous region of Tibet, few images and elements reach us regarding the scale of the disaster, which left at least 1,341 dead and nearly 5,000 missing in neighboring Nepal.
A race against time to find survivors
On Sunday, the Nepalese Minister of Energy reiterated that emergency services were continuing their efforts to try to find survivors, eleven days after the tragedy. On Friday and Saturday, two Nepalese workers and a Chinese citizen were extracted safely from the tunnels of hydroelectric installations, as well as a sixty-year-old extricated from her house buried under mud.
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Continued rescue and search operations for survivors
Very likely · Within days
Open Questions
- What is the final total number of victims?
- What are the exact causes of this flood?
