Death toll from catastrophic flooding in Nepal and Tibet passes 1,000

Associated Press Reporters The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Nepal and Tibet passed 1,000 on Tuesday, authorities said, as rescue teams worked to reach communities cut off by the disaster. Nepal’s disaster agency said on Tuesday that 987 deaths had been counted there, with 3,916 people missing, including 583

The 26 August disaster began with a chain of events high in the Himalayas. A glacial collapse sent large amounts of rock, ice and meltwater into valleys below, triggering powerful floods downstream.

Devastating floods on the Nepal-Tibet border have killed at least 987 people in Nepal, the disaster authority has said, taking the number of overall deaths to more than 1,000.

At least 11, 814 people have been rescued so far, according to Nepalese authorities.

Death toll from catastrophic flooding in Nepal and China passes 1,000

Rescuers were trying to find trapped workers in at least a dozen hydroelectric plant sites Monday after catastrophic flooding in Nepal and Tibet killed at least 900 people and left more than 4,000 missing.

The river in Nepal that surged like a tsunami from the high Himalayas surged again on Sunday, this time from torrential rains this wet season. Thousands of people are still missing after the devastating floods last week. Ramy Inocencio reports.

More than 30 British nationals are among hundreds of people missing and feared dead