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The Nepal floods death toll has risen to 469, with almost 1,000 people still missing and at least 540 of them foreign nationals, officials say.
Local authorities have confirmed that the death toll from the deadly Nepal floods has risen to 475, with almost 1,000 people still missing across Nepal and neighbouring Tibet.
The latest confirmation comes two days after a glacier collapse sent a torrent of rock, ice, mud and debris through Himalayan river systems. Heavy machinery is being used by the rescue teams to dig through mud and debris in the worst-hit towns, with hopes of finding survivors fading. Helicopters have dropped emergency supplies to thousands of people cut off in towns and valleys, while crews, some with sniffer dogs, have recovered dozens of bodies swept down into the plains.
The flood destroyed power stations, roads and bridges along the route linking Kathmandu with Lhasa, a corridor popular with trekkers and pilgrims. Dibga Tamang, among the last people rescued from the hard-hit town of Rasuwa, was airlifted with three others to an army camp in Nuwakot.
"All of our people have gone. They are dead," he said.
"I have no one left waiting for me. Everything and everyone is gone. The end.
"Nepal's disaster management authority has warned that a lake formed by debris blocking the Bhotekoshi River at the flood site is rising and at risk of bursting. On the Chinese side of the border, roughly three million cubic metres of water, which is about 1,200 Olympic-sized swimming pools, is expected to flow into an already dammed lake over the next three days, with peak flow due around 1 September.
"The volume of water is continuing to increase, and so is the risk," Zhu Jinfeng of the water resources ministry's hydrology department told state broadcaster CCTV. said that further analysis showed the “seismic event was a glacial collapse and debris flow that caused subsequent catastrophic impacts downstream” and “no earthquake had occurred”. According to the USGS, the glacial collapse had registered as a magnitude 5.2 seismic event on the Richter scale.
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