Nepal-Tibet deaths from flash flooding rise amid race to free workers in tunnel
- Rescuers in Nepal and Tibet have battled through leg-sucking mud amid the threat of fresh flooding to search for thousands of people still missing after a deadly wall of water swept through the Himalayan border zone, engulfing entire villages.
- The latest updates on Sunday put the number of missing at 3,048, including hundreds of foreigners.
- There was a total of 804 confirmed deaths across Nepal and Tibet, and reports of some bodies swept downstream possibly as far as India.
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- Rescuers in Nepal and Tibet have battled through leg-sucking mud amid the threat of fresh flooding to search for thousands of people still missing after a deadly wall of water swept through the Himalayan border zone, engulfing entire villages.
- The latest updates on Sunday put the number of missing at 3,048, including hundreds of foreigners.
- There was a total of 804 confirmed deaths across Nepal and Tibet, and reports of some bodies swept downstream possibly as far as India.
Sources: Guardian