The Latest Breaking News from Nepal

🔴Nepal-Tibet floods live: Death toll passes 580, nearly 2,500 people missing

The number of people missing in Nepal and China has surpassed 2,400, underscoring the scale of the disaster days after a tsunami-like wall of water and debris swept away villages and killed hundreds.

France 24 · Aug 28

Number of people missing in deadly Nepal, Tibet floods jumps past 2,400

Nepal’s disaster authority sharply raised the number of missing to 1,924 on Friday, including 517 foreigners, two days after devastating floods that killed at least 586 in the country. A further 558 people are also reported missing in Tibet, where Chinese officials say at least five people have died.

France 24 · Aug 28

Search continues as number missing in Nepal-Tibet floods rises to 2,478 – as it happened

Chinese rescue team reaches all-but-obliterated Gyirong border crossing complex to find ‘nothing but ruins’

The Guardian - AU · Aug 28

Nepal-Tibet flash flood: what we know so far on day three

Risks rise of further flooding from rivers clogged by debris as rescue teams race to find more than 1,400 missing people

The Guardian - AU · Aug 28

Satellite images reveal bedrock and glacier collapsed on the Nepal-Tibet border, then rivers flooded

Earth scientists are searching satellite imagery following catastrophic flooding along the Nepal-China border for clues to the cause

The Independent UK · Aug 28

Glacier sheared off, plunged 1.2km before ‘liquid concrete’ flood swamped Nepal

Satellite images analysed by Isro’s national remote sensing centre showed that almost two-thirds of the glacier body had detached. A Sentinel-2 image from Aug 24 showed the glacier intact, while a Landsat-9 image taken after the disaster on Aug 26 revealed a large scar identified as the “zone of glacier…

The Times of India · Aug 28

Trump says US ready to help Nepal with 'anything' as 90 Americans remain unaccounted for

Nepal's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has set up an Emergency Response Team to coordinate search and rescue operations, verify information and provide consular assistance to foreign nationals affected by the floods. Rescue teams continue to search affected areas for missing people, help those stranded by the floods and work to…

The Times of India · Aug 27

Search on for missing Britons in Nepal amid fears of new floods

The UK has offered £5 million to help the Nepalese government.

Evening Standard · Aug 27

Catastrophic Nepal floods and landslides in Nuwakot leave hundreds still missing

Communities along Nepal’s Trishuli River face catastrophic damage, hundreds missing and destroyed bridges as helicopters race to evacuate the injured.

Euronews · Aug 27

At least 90 Americans reported missing after devastating flooding hit Nepal and Tibet

A large number of the missing individuals were participating in a pilgrimage to Tibet’s Mount Kailash

The Independent UK · Aug 27