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Nepal Flash-Flood Death Toll Rises to 1,204 as Search for Missing Continues

From Tempo · () Indonesian

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  • Nepal’s reported death toll from the August 26 flash floods and landslides has risen to 1,204, according to figures cited from the country’s disaster authority.
  • Authorities said 330 foreign nationals had been rescued, while searches continued for nearly 4,500 missing people.
  • The disaster followed a surge of water from China into the Bhote Koshi River after a glacier receded and triggered a landslide.

Nepal’s death toll from the flash floods and landslides near the China border has risen to 1,204, according to figures attributed to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority.

Floodwaters swept through northern Nepal on August 26 after a massive surge of water from China struck the Bhote Koshi River. The flooding followed the retreat of a glacier, which triggered a landslide. Authorities said 330 foreign nationals had been rescued by September 1.

Search operations continued for nearly 4,500 people reported missing. The scale of the disaster has also prompted warnings about construction in Himalayan areas vulnerable to floods, landslides and seismic activity. Daanish Mustafa, a critical geography professor at King’s College London, warned that large dams in such mountainous regions pose serious risks.

“Such a disaster is inevitably coming always in the dynamic glacial and seismically active environment of the high Himalayas and the Karakorams,” Mustafa said.

Such a disaster is inevitably coming always in the dynamic glacial and seismically active environment of the high Himalayas and the Karakorams.

· Daanish MustafaWarning about risks from large dams in disaster-prone mountain regions after the floods.
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