Nepal-Tibet deaths from flash flooding rise amid race to free workers in tunnel

Total of 804 confirmed dead and more than 3,000 missing amid threat of fresh inundation ‘Their whole village has disappeared’: frantic hunt for survivors in Kathmandu hospital Rescuers in Nepal and Tibet have battled through leg-sucking mud amid the threat of fresh flooding to search for thousands of people still missing after a deadly wall of water swept through the Himalayan border zone, engulfing entire villages. The latest updates on Sunday put the number of missing at 3,048, including hundreds of foreigners. There was a total of 804 confirmed deaths across Nepal and Tibet, and reports of some bodies swept downstream possibly as far as India. Nepal said it had begun the task of burying some of the hundreds of bodies after first taking DNA samples so that families could later reclaim them after identification and perform traditional funeral rites. The disaster, which struck the border on Wednesday morning, was caused by a glacial collapse which sent a wall of water and debris downstream, the US Geological Survey said. Nepal’s foreign minister called for a global response to the climate crisis, saying the small, poor Himalayan nation was bearing a disproportionate share of its im