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.
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.
The video showed the timeframe for it. About ten paces worth of running was the most they had.