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mountaineer:
Hundreds missing, including 291 foreign tourists, after deadly flash flood on Nepal-Tibet border
BBC
Aug. 26, 2026
Edited by Angus Thompson and Craig Hoyle

Summary

    *Hundreds of travellers are missing, including at least 291 foreign tourists, after a flash flood on the Nepal-Tibet border

    *At least 31 people have been killed in Nepal - among the preliminary list of the missing are more than 100 people from India and 12 from the UK, according to its tourist board

    *Chinese state media is also reporting "major casualties" in Tibet, which is controlled by China

    *Verified videos from Nepal show a bridge being swept away and multi-storey buildings collapsed by the force of floodwaters

    *Other images show houses partially submerged after muddy floodwater swept through Nepal's Nuwakot district

    *Nepal's foreign minister says preliminary reports show it may have been caused by an earthquake triggering an avalanche, which lead to flash floods  ...


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https://twitter.com/NirmalPrasai5/status/2092497786919150014

rustynail:
www.tiktok.com/@todaysnepal0/video/7678303355390659848?_r=1

mountaineer:
Yikes. This looks like something in a movie.

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https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/2092569001792585894

rustynail:
More pictures

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16082011/Americans-missing-flash-floods-earthquake-Nepal.html

mountaineer:

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@Rainmaker1973

A massive glacier collapse on the Nepal-Tibet border has triggered catastrophic flash flooding and mudslides.

On Wednesday morning, an enormous chunk of ice snapped off a high-altitude glacier, plunging over a vertical kilometer into the valley bottom.

Glaciologists report that this massive ice avalanche blocked the Lhende Khola river, a tributary of the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli rivers. The temporary dam rapidly failed, releasing a towering, apocalyptic wall of water, mud, and heavy debris that violently tore through downstream mountain settlements and border facilities.
12:00 PM · Aug 26, 2026

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https://twitter.com/TimOnPoint/status/2092674021548523847

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