As the community scrambles to check on loved ones, some hear from family members who fled to safety, while others pray for good news Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast When Suman Shrestha opened his phone at work and saw vision of a thick, muddy wall of flood water smashing into towns in his country of birth, he almost did not believe what he was seeing. âIt was awful â I called my family to see if this was really happening and to see if the news reports were right,â says Shrestha, who moved to Australia from Kathmandu in 2017. It wasnât long until the truth hit home. Like many of the 210,000 people who were born in Nepal but now call Australia home, Shrestha has spent the last 24 hours scrambling to find out if his loved ones are safe. âI can see that lots of my friends are missing,â says Shrestha, who now lives in Gosford. âWe canât get in contact with them because the communications have been cut off in that area.â Nearly 1,300 people are missing and at least 389 have been killed in Nepal and Tibet by the flood, which was caused by an avalanche of ice and rock on Wednesday. At least
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In late August 2026, a glacier collapse in the Himalayas sent a catastrophic flash flood down the Nepal-Tibet border, tearing through Gyirong Port and sweeping away homes, bridges, and hydropower tunnels. The timeline opens with Australia's Nepali diaspora scrambling for news of loved ones, some hearing from relatives who fled to safety, others left praying. The toll climbed through the week: hundreds confirmed dead, then more than 800, with roughly 2,500 to 3,000 people missing and the Red Cross saying about 93,000 people were in great need. Rescue stories punctuated the search: a headteacher evacuated 900 children from a school minutes before the water struck, and workers were pulled alive from flooded hydropower tunnels. The missing were international: dozens of Australians, including a woman who later made contact after facing a 110-kilometre trek to Kathmandu, plus American tourists, British nationals, and others. As the search went on, a second story emerged about information itself: Tibetan campaigners said Beijing was concealing the scale of the disaster on the Tibetan side, with hundreds of homes destroyed and the true number of missing far higher than admitted, while dramatic footage circulated everywhere except inside China. The coverage closes on the Himalayan building boom the flood exposed, with countries constructing in one of the world's most disaster-prone mountain ranges as if the risk were not rising.
Rights group claims 300 homes were destroyed in Tibet and number of missing people is ‘far higher’ than Beijing admits A Tibetan advocacy group says hundreds of homes were destroyed on the Tibetan side of the border in last week’s deadly…
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Rights group claims 300 homes were destroyed in Tibet and number of missing people is ‘far higher’ than Beijing admits A Tibetan advocacy group says hundreds of homes were destroyed on the Tibetan side of the border in…
Read original at The Guardian →Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Thatâs where weâll leave our live coverage for the day. Before we go, letâs recap the top headlines: The total number of Australians missing in the…
Read original at The Guardian →Bhagat Lal, 68, has a son studying in Brisbane. Other relatives are missing, while their house was found washed up on the river. The first thing is the noise â chopper blades cutting through the air as helicopters…
Read original at The Guardian →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…
Read original at The Guardian →Rajendra Dawadi ordered students to higher ground with moments to spare after receiving warnings from upstream A headteacher in Nepal evacuated 900 children from a school moments before a deadly wall of water struck…
Read original at The Guardian →Total number of missing Britons between Tibet and Nepal at 48 as Beijing mobilises more than 2,100 rescue workers Fifteen British nationals are reported to be missing in China as the search continues for survivors of…
Read original at The Guardian →A headteacher has told how he saved 900 pupils' lives from the Nepal floods - by quickly evacuating them just 10 minutes before the waters hit. Rajendra Dawadi, who is in charge of Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School in…
Read original at BBC →As water, concrete and debris stormed through the darkness, almost sweeping him off his feet, Ram Chandra tightly gripped onto one of the rungs studded into the roof of the tunnel he was working in on the banks of…
Read original at CNN →Missing woman’s partner and daughters fundraise to join search in one of the hardest-hit areas of Nepal Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast…
Read original at The Guardian →Get the latest updates on the Nepal-China floods here. ⢠Rescue efforts: Crews in Nepal are racing against the clock to find anyone who survived inside hydropower tunnels after catastrophic flooding, with the effort…
Read original at CNN →The walls of a teaching hospital are filled with pictures of unidentified victims as authorities collect DNA samples and plan burials before morgues fill up Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our…
Read original at The Guardian →Rescue crews in Nepal are searching for hundreds of people missing after devastating floods, including dozens of Americans still unaccounted for. Fox News foreign correspondent Jeff Paul reports on the urgent recovery…
Read original at Fox News →Get the latest updates on the Nepal-China flooding here. ⢠Rescue effort: A search is underway for almost 900 missing employees at various hydropower projects in Nepal after Wednesdayâs catastrophic flooding on its…
Read original at CNN →Deadly flooding along the China-Nepal border has put a sharp spotlight on how risks from natural disasters in the Himalayas are growing, at the same time that countries in the region are rapidly building out their…
Read original at CNN →The dramatic footage was almost impossible to miss. A torrent of water tearing through Gyirong Port, one of the main border crossings between Nepal and Tibet, sweeping away all in its path as hundreds of people fled for…
Read original at BBC →âThe flood took everything I haveâ: survivors grieve for relatives and homes swept away in Nepal Visual guide: how the deadly flooding unfolded Tell us: have you been affected by the flash floods? Nepalâs official…
Read original at The Guardian →Massive landslides and catastrophic flash floods have wreaked havoc at the Nepal-China border, destroying houses, wiping out bridges and killing more than 1,200 people. More than 4,500 people remain unaccounted for in…
Read original at CNN →Dramatic video shows rescue workers in Nepal dragging a trapped person through the mud in a hydroplant tunnel after a deadly mudslide swept through the region. Credit: Reuters. Stunning video shows rescue workers in…
Read original at Fox News →New satellite imagery has revealed the scale of the devastation along Nepal's Trishuli River caused by Wednesday's deadly flash flood, triggered by a glacier collapse. Before-and-after images show how sections of the…
Read original at BBC →Federation says it fears death toll of nearly 600 will continue to rise as rescuers reach cut-off areas Nepal-Tibet flash flood â latest updates Visual guide: how the deadly flooding unfolded Tell us: have you been…
Read original at The Guardian →Foreign affairs minister says government will send a $5m assistance package for affected communities Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Dozens of Australians remain missing two days after a…
Read original at The Guardian →Cara Severino has spoken with her parents â but still faces a trek of more than 110km to reach Kathmandu on foot âSo desperately lovedâ: ADF member among dozens of Australians missing in Nepal floods as families…
Read original at The Guardian →Sitting at home, Shekhar Agrawal dials number after number, hoping one of them might offer clues to the whereabouts of his sister and teenage niece â American tourists who have been missing since catastrophic flash…
Read original at CNN →Get the latest updates on the China-Nepal flood rescue efforts here. ⢠Death toll climbs: More than 600 people have been killed in Nepal, according to police, after catastrophic flooding at its border area with China.…
Read original at CNN →The King says he and Queen Camilla are "heartbroken" by the deadly flash floods near the Nepal-Tibet border, as 33 people from the UK are missing including a 13-year-old girl and 14-year-old boy. The Prince and Princess…
Read original at BBC →Risks rise of further flooding from rivers clogged by debris as rescue teams race to find more than 1,400 missing people Nearly 1,400 missing, mostly tourists, and hundreds killed Visual guide: how the deadly flooding…
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Read original at The Guardian →US Geological Survey says massive glacial collapse caused catastrophic flash floods in the Himalayan border region of Nepal â and Tibet At 8.37am on Wednesday, an enormous section â of a glacier in the Himalayas…
Read original at The Guardian →As the community scrambles to check on loved ones, some hear from family members who fled to safety, while others pray for good news Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email,…
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Rights group claims 300 homes were destroyed in Tibet and number of missing people is ‘far higher’ than Beijing admits A Tibetan advocacy group says hundreds of homes were destroyed on the Tibetan side of the border in last week’s deadly…
View source →Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Thatâs where weâll leave our live coverage for the day. Before we go, letâs recap the top headlines: The total number of Australians missing in the deadly Nepal floods is…
View source →Bhagat Lal, 68, has a son studying in Brisbane. Other relatives are missing, while their house was found washed up on the river. The first thing is the noise â chopper blades cutting through the air as helicopters come and go from the…
View source →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…
View source →Rajendra Dawadi ordered students to higher ground with moments to spare after receiving warnings from upstream A headteacher in Nepal evacuated 900 children from a school moments before a deadly wall of water struck their town amid the…
View source →Total number of missing Britons between Tibet and Nepal at 48 as Beijing mobilises more than 2,100 rescue workers Fifteen British nationals are reported to be missing in China as the search continues for survivors of the devastating…
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