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Nepal flood death toll rises to 1,287, with 5,083 missing

From Le Figaro · () French

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  • Nepal’s emergency-management authority said the death toll from last week’s devastating floods had risen to 1,287, with 5,083 people missing.
  • Chinese state media reported 21 deaths and 541 missing in Tibet, bringing the provisional total across the two countries to 1,308 dead and 5,624 missing.
  • Hundreds of foreign tourists and pilgrims remain missing in Nepal, along with more than 900 workers or staff at hydroelectric plants and dam construction sites; rescuers found two workers alive after nine days trapped in a tunnel.

Two workers were pulled alive from a tunnel in Nepal nine days after deadly floods and landslides struck, even as the disaster’s toll continued to rise.

Nepal’s emergency-management authority said Friday that 1,287 people had died and 5,083 remained missing after the devastating floods of the previous week. Among those still unaccounted for are hundreds of foreign tourists and pilgrims, as well as more than 900 workers and staff at hydroelectric plants or dams under construction.

The two rescued workers had been trapped inside a tunnel at the Trishula-3 construction site. Rescuers extracted them on Friday, nine days after the disaster.

Chinese state media reported 21 deaths and 541 missing in Tibet. Combined with Nepal’s figures, the provisional toll across the two countries stood at 1,308 dead and 5,624 missing.

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