Catastrophic floods kill over 390 in Nepal and Tibet, with more than 1,400 missing
apnews.com
Rescue teams and military helicopters are searching for hundreds of missing people after flash floods on the Nepal-China border.

DEVIGHAT, Nepal (AP) — Rescue teams searched on Thursday for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border after a catastrophic and deadly torrent of floods and mud swept through several communities a day earlier following a glacier collapse.

The disaster left at least 168 people dead and more than 1,300 missing, including foreigners and pilgrims, and displaced hundreds of people across the Himalayan region.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 hour ago

    Kind of weird how many years we’ve been hearing Gore’s name used as some kind of punchline, usually from some of the stupidest and worst people, but also from the Tone Police types.

    And of course the moronic felon in chief has been saying it’s a “Chinese hoax”.

    But I guess the denialists will be able to write this off as just a random event, not tied to climate change or anything.

      • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 days ago

        Thought the same. Looks like that movie 2012 or something, it just doesn’t seem believable that something that cataclysmic could happen. Horrifying and tragic

  • stretch2m@infosec.pub
    12·
    3 days ago

    If I lived anywhere downstream of a glacier, I would be getting quite nervous. Those videos are harrowing. The one at the border crossing looks like a scene from a Hollywood disaster movie.

  • rabber@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    There’s gotta be way more missing than that. Those videos are completely insane.

    • Tiral@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 days ago

      There are. It’s the CCP, well they were taken over by the CCP, it’s like Hong Kong… it’s CCP controlled but called Hong Kong. Anyways, you need to probably 5x the missing toll from whatever is publicly reported. China is still dying in the hill that they had 60k covid deaths when it’s closer to 1-1.5 million.

  • WizardGed@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    3 days ago

    That’s devastating, the kind of power behind that and with how fast it must have moved I doubt there was much of a chance for those in the way to escape. Not much you can do to stop a massive glacier like that from collapsing in this warming world. The people affected by this have my deepest sympathies.

  • Bluedragon012@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 days ago

    I… I hope they didn’t have to suffer for long… I hope thier body gave up and passed out on impact… Because this is a terrible way to go…