{"id":71694,"date":"2026-08-29T08:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T08:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/71694\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T08:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T08:27:10","slug":"live-updates-china-nepal-flood-death-toll-passes-600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/71694\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: China-Nepal flood death toll passes 600"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/88246930-25536057-generated-thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;Devastation across Nepali towns following deadly flood that killed more than 600 people&lt;\/p&gt;\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1080\" width=\"1920\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Devastation across Nepali towns following deadly flood that killed more than 600 people\n                <\/p>\n<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787992030_58_88246930-25536057-generated-thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;Devastation across Nepali towns following deadly flood that killed more than 600 people&lt;\/p&gt;\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1080\" width=\"1920\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Devastation across Nepali towns following deadly flood that killed more than 600 people<\/p>\n<p>        0:56<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmte0zeqm00003b6uap1y9udg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            A police dog team was combing half-buried houses in the devastated town of Devighat on Saturday, looking for corpses.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmte0zgsl00013b6ugoizvufq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Over the doorways filled with silt and debris, ornate signs carry the inhabitants\u2019 family name or Hindu blessings, signs of the domesticity ruined when the nearby Trishuli river burst its banks in Nepal\u2019s worst natural disaster in years.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmte0zgsl00023b6up9qahvv4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            A search team member poked a cane into the feet-deep silt to detect any sign of a body beneath it.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmte1du2p000g3b6u9t01tzzv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Nearby, the putrefied carcass of a buffalo lay by the road and its stench saturated the air.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmte0zgsl00033b6uj5pzdcab@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The 14-member police team from the capital Kathmandu and their two dogs have been working from dawn til dusk for the past four days.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmte0zgsl00043b6ur3k611mm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIt breaks my heart,\u201d Krishna, one of the policemen, who did not want to give his last name, told CNN.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"pull-quote__text  vossi-pull-quote__text inline-placeholder\" data-editable=\"text\">\n                \u201cWe\u2019ve been coming here for three to four days already. My heart breaks that we haven\u2019t been able to find people. I\u2019m sad that our Nepali people are having to suffer like this.\u201d\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmte0zgsl00063b6u1e69rwkk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The last body police had pulled out was earlier this morning, of a young man. He was wearing blue jeans, Krishna said, but there was little else to identify him by. \u201cHis body had already decomposed,\u201d Krishna said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmte0zgsl000a3b6ulez1w982@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Tallying the dead and missing is laborious, Krishna the policeman said. Teams like his, deployed from other parts of the country, rely on the few locals still here for information on who is still missing and where they were last seen.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmte0zgsl000b3b6uo07mtuaa@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            One policeman and a dog scrambled over debris into what once was a small shop to check the shop owner\u2019s registration certificate fixed to the wall.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmte0zgsl000c3b6uw88ys0rs@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            One man dug with a shovel trying to get into the ground floor to begin the long task of seeing if anything was salvageable. Others walked by carrying possessions; a microwave, a set of chairs and cooking pots.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devastation across Nepali towns following deadly flood that killed more than 600 people Devastation across Nepali towns following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[8,9,7],"class_list":["post-71694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/117177853188249683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}