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Greta Ruffino

How a glacier collapse may have triggered the Nepal-Tibet disaster

A massive piece of ice that fell thousands of metres from a glacier into a river below may have triggered the disaster in Nepal and Tibet.

Scientists are still piecing together information from satellite and ground-level data to figure out exactly what happened to cause the flood, which killed at least 353 people and left more than 1,300 missing, including foreigners and pilgrims.

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