Nepal-Tibet floods: Death toll rises to 682 as rescuers drill for workers trapped in tunnels

Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority said some 2,426 people are still missing.

Nepali army rescue teams were using drilling equipment on Saturday seeking to rescue more than 100 people trapped inside a hydropower tunnel, three days after devastating floods struck the site.

Nepali army digs through thick mud that has filled tunnel at plant in Rasuwa, as death toll from flash floods rises to 626 with seven confirmed dead in Tibet ‘The flood took everything I have’: survivors grieve for relatives and homes swept away in Nepal Chinese rescuers find ‘nothing but ruins’ at border crossing as

Heavy rain is complicating an already difficult rescue effort, as hundreds remain missing three days after deadly flash floods hit the Nepal-Tibet border region.

Rescuers in Nepal and China were still battling Saturday to locate thousands of people missing days after a deadly, tsunami-like wall of water and debris swept through the Himalayan region

Death Toll Rises as Rescuers Search for Victims of Nepal Flood  WSJ

Rescuers were battling through mud even as the threat of new floods loomed, with emergency teams recovering 633 bodies so far.

Video from Nepal's Prime Minister's Office shows rescue workers pulling trapped citizens through a mud-saturated hydropower plant tunnel in Rasuwa.

Rescuers are racing to find survivors before more potential flooding occurs.

Videos of the disaster, which tore through the border area between Tibet and Nepal, have been removed from social media by China’s censors.

The number of missing people has risen to 403, with 33 UK citizens among 341 foreign nationals unaccounted for after devastating flash floods struck the Rasuwa region