A devastating flash flood near the Nepal-China border has killed at least 939 people in Nepal, according to the country's national disaster management authority. The death toll is expected to rise as rescue teams enter their sixth day of searching for the missing.
China's state media confirmed an additional 16 deaths in the Tibet region, bringing the total recorded fatalities in the affected area to 955. Currently, 4,471 people remain unaccounted for on both sides of the border.
The latest figures from Nepal show 3,925 people missing nationwide, including 592 foreigners. Many of them were workers at hydropower projects, which bore the brunt of the flood's destructive force. However, officials said the number of missing hydropower workers has decreased from 933 earlier to 639 as of Monday.
Nepal's disaster agency reported that 3,333 of its citizens are still missing. The hardest-hit areas include Nuwakot district with 1,158 people unaccounted for, and neighboring Rasuwa district with 865 missing. Among the missing are also 45 soldiers, 38 police officers, and 18 customs and immigration personnel.
In neighboring India, the Uttar Pradesh state government said it has recovered 17 bodies from rivers flowing from Nepal, believed to be victims of the flood, though these cases have not been included in the official casualty count.
