Nepal refuses to give up search for flood victims
Translated from Malay and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- Nepalese rescue teams intensified searches after finding two hydroelectric workers who had gone missing.
- Flooding in Nepal and China has killed 1,325 people, while hundreds of hydroelectric workers remain missing.
- Fast-moving water and tsunami-like mudflows struck the China-Nepal border after a glacier collapse last month.
Nepal has not abandoned the search for flood victims. Rescue teams intensified operations after finding two hydroelectric workers among the hundreds who disappeared.
The workers went missing when powerful currents and tsunami-like mudflows swept through the China-Nepal border area. The disaster followed a glacier collapse last month.
The death toll from the devastating floods in Nepal and China has reached 1,325 people, while rescuers continue looking for those still unaccounted for.
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Originally published by Utusan Malaysia in Malay. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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