Over 1,000 dead after flash floods in the Himalayas

Kathmandu. After the flash floods in the Himalayas, the death toll in Nepal and Tibet has risen to more than 1,000. In their latest statistics, the police in Kathmandu speak of 1,007 deaths in Nepal alone. China had previously reported 16 casualties on the Tibetan side.

According to the authorities, many bodies were completely disfigured when they were found and some were already badly decomposed. The death toll is likely to rise even further in the next few days and weeks.

According to a police spokesman in Nepal, the number of missing people rose to almost 4,600. In Tibet there were recently just under 550. Hundreds of foreigners have also been missing since last Wednesday's catastrophe, including several Germans. A German family of four was rescued in the days after the flood and brought to safety by helicopter.

A week ago, a devastating flash flood of water, mud, ice and rubble swept away everything in its path in the border area with China. According to experts, a massive glacier collapse on the Tibetan side is said to have triggered the flood. Many villages are completely destroyed and the residents there have lost everything.