Nepal, Bhotekoshi and water levels
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The Himalayan disaster has claimed at least 734 lives, with more than 3,000 people missing across Nepal and Tibet. Authorities are now racing against time as rising water levels trigger fears of another flood.
Flash floods in Nepal have killed 903 people and left 4,247 missing after a suspected ice-rock collapse near the Nepal-Tibet border. As rescues continue, hospitals and forensic teams are focusing on identifying the dead in a disaster that also severed Nepal's key trade link with China.
An ice avalanche and landslide may have blocked Nepal’s Lhende River near the China border, forming a temporary debris lake that later burst and triggered a destructive flood in the Bhotekoshi River.
Nepal has introduced additional documentation requirements for foreign journalists covering the devastating floods along the Bhotekoshi River, as international media organisations send correspondents
India Today on MSN
Nepal on high alert as Bhotekoshi rises after floods kill 734
Nepal remains on high alert after the Bhotekoshi River rose again during ongoing rescue operations. The renewed surge has deepened fears of fresh flooding as thousands remain missing and relief routes stay disrupted.
The Kathmandu Post on MSN
In a settlement destroyed by the Bhotekoshi flood, a disabled couple offer strangers the little they have
Nuwakot, Aug. 29 -- On a hillside in Dabile of Bidur Municipality-10 stands a lone house with a corrugated zinc-sheet roof. There are no other houses nearby. From the house, the only view below is of a settlement devastated by Wednesday's flooding of the Bhotekoshi River.
By Sahana Bajracharya, Gopal Sharma, Laurie Chen and Ethan Wang CHITWAN, Nepal/BEIJING, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Rescuers in Nepal and China raced on Sunday to find thousands of people missing after a glacier collapse unleashed a catastrophic mudslide across the Himalayas,