Nepal flood death toll reaches 903, with more than 4,200 still missing

Nepal’s flood disaster has left at least 903 people dead and 4,247 missing as search and rescue operations entered their sixth day.

The missing include 592 foreign nationals and 933 workers from hydropower projects along rivers hit by powerful currents. Nepal’s disaster agency recorded 3,655 local people as still missing.

Nuwakot district recorded the sharpest increase, with 1,158 people reported missing on Monday compared with 115 a day earlier. Another 562 people remained missing in Rasuwa. Those unaccounted for include 45 Nepalese soldiers, 38 police officers and 19 customs and immigration officials.

Across the border in Tibet, Chinese state media reported 16 deaths and 546 missing people from the disaster that struck the previous week. Combining the figures for Nepal and Tibet produced a total of 919 deaths and 4,793 missing people.

Authorities in India’s Uttar Pradesh state also recovered 17 bodies from a river flowing from Nepal. Officials believe they may be flood victims, but identification was still under way, and the bodies had not been added to the death toll.