Nepal buries victims of Himalayan flooding as death toll climbs past 900
Nepal on Monday began mass burials for the hundreds of people killed in catastrophic flash floods along the Nepal-Tibet border last week, as authorities announced the death toll had climbed past 900 people.
Officials in Nepal and neighboring China are still searching for more than 4,000 missing people, including hundreds of hydropower plant workers across the remote Himalayan region.
Nepal was burying on Monday some of the hundreds of bodies retrieved after a devastating tsunami-like flood crashed through the Himalayan region, sweeping away villages and leaving thousands still missing.
Distraught families have packed rescue stations and hospitals in search of their missing relatives, while others have faced the grim task of identifying bodies at overflowing morgues.
The huge wave of ice, rocks and debris that smashed into villages and towns on Wednesday claimed more than 900 lives in both Nepal and Tibet – across the border in China – with reports of some bodies possibly swept downstream as far as India.
Nepal’s disaster agency said Monday that 903 deaths had been counted there, with 4,247 people, including 592 foreigners, still missing. Some 933 workers at hydropower plants are among those unaccounted for in Nepal.
As of Sunday, Chinese authorities reported 16 deaths and 546 missing. Chinese state media said 261 of the missing were foreigners, including over a hundred Nepalis.
(Source: France 24)
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