{"id":665914,"date":"2026-08-31T22:47:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T22:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/665914\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T22:47:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T22:47:38","slug":"death-toll-from-nepal-floods-climbs-to-over-900-with-more-than-4700-people-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/665914\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll from Nepal floods climbs to over 900, with more than 4,700 people missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE DEATH TOLL in the catastrophic flooding in Nepal and Tibet climbed past 900 on Monday, with more than 4,700 missing.<\/p>\n<p>Brigadier General Raja Ram Basnet, Nepal\u2019s army spokesman, said authorities intensified their rescue efforts in the disaster zones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working in search and rescue of the stranded people from hills, settlements and river areas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple foreign rescue teams were also assisting local rescuers to find trapped workers in various hydropower tunnels.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say at least 90 people are trapped in multiple tunnels of hydropower plants.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788216458_487_.jpeg\"  alt=\"gyirong-chinas-xizang-autonomous-region-30th-aug-2026-rescuers-and-sniffer-dogs-search-for-the-missing-at-the-mudslide-hit-area-in-gyirong-county-southwest-chinas-xizang-autonomous-region-aug\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n            Rescuers and sniffer dogs search for missing at te mudslide-hit area in Gyirong County, southwest China&#8217;s Xizang Autonomous Region                    Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n<p>    Alamy Stock Photo\n<\/p>\n<p>Nepal\u2019s disaster agency said on Monday that 903 deaths had been counted there, with 4,247 people, including 592 foreigners, missing.<\/p>\n<p>As of Sunday, Chinese authorities reported 16 deaths and 546 missing, and Chinese state media said 261 of the missing were foreigners, including more than a hundred Nepalis.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s flash floods started after a glacial collapse high in the Himalayan region.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists who studied satellite images said bedrock underneath a glacier high in the Himalayan region had collapsed, taking part of the glacier with it.<\/p>\n<p>The rockfall was so extreme that it registered as a magnitude 5.2 seismic event.<\/p>\n<p>The rocks and melted water then swelled the rivers in the valleys below, causing a torrent of water that swept buildings, bridges and earth downstream in Tibet and Nepal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE DEATH TOLL in the catastrophic flooding in Nepal and Tibet climbed past 900 on Monday, with more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,381,13,14,147121,221335,24153,6,281289,11,12,15,16,8396,5,21767,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-665914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-china","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-flash-flood","tag-flash-floods","tag-flooding","tag-headlines","tag-himalayan-region","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-nepal","tag-news","tag-tibet","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117192561345982830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}