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Rain-triggered landslides across Baglung district in Nepal over the past three days killed at least 12 people and left one person missing, police confirmed. The tragic incident unfolded at Sipa in Tarakhola Rural Municipality-5, where a landslide buried a home. The disaster killed 55-year-old Dil Bahadur Pun and his 79-year-old mother-in-law Narmaya Roka, according to District Police Office Chief SP Phanindra Prasai. Emergency responders rescued Pun’s injured wife, two sons, and daugh...

The death toll from the devastating floods along the Nepal Tibet border has surpassed 1,000. But the impact of the disaster is not expected to remain confined to Nepal. It is also a major warning for India. According to a BBC report published Thursday, heavy rainfall in Nepal’s mountains, flash floods, landslides or glacier related disasters can have impacts that cross the border and reach vast areas of India’s plains. Nepal has more than 6,000 rivers and streams. Most of them flow south...

An Australian medical student whose partner has been missing since devastating floods hit Nepal has urged technology companies to share location data that could help rescue teams narrow their search areas. Sarada Viswanathan (23), has spent the past eight days trying to trace the last movements of her boyfriend Rishab Iyer and his family. They disappeared near the border between Nepal and China’s Tibet after a glacier collapse triggered a destructive torrent in the region. Working from her home...

Sudden floods have caused devastation in Nepal. More than 350 people have died while over 1,500 remain missing. Amid the disaster, misinformation continues to spread on social media. A video showing flooding and landslides is being circulated with claims that it depicts the current flash floods in Nepal. However, an investigation shows that the video is not from Nepal. It shows a flash flood that occurred last year in Uttarkashi district of India’s Uttarakhand state.What is being claimed? Yeste...

The death toll from Wednesday’s devastating floods in Nepal has risen to 289. The country’s police department reported the figure in its latest social media update. The police department said in a statement Thursday afternoon that 289 bodies had so far been recovered from various affected areas. Meanwhile, Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority said another 826 people remain missing in the country. China’s state broadcaster CCTV also reported that the number of...

A massive collapse of a rock and mud wall into a river along the Himalayan border of Nepal and Tibet, China on Wednesday unleashed floods on the Nepali side. The disaster killed many people and left hundreds of tourists missing. As night fell, rescue crews performed the grim duty of retrieving and identifying victims. The Nepal Police confirmed late Wednesday that rescuers had recovered 157 bodies so far. As the catastrophe unfolded, verified video footage captured dozens of individual...