Nepal Flash Floods

Rescuers worked through mud and debris in areas devastated by a flash flood along the Himalayan border between Nepal and China. They searched on Friday for hundreds of people still missing as the death toll rose and Nepali and Chinese authorities warned of further flooding from a lake that formed upstream after Wednesday’s disaster and was already overflowing. They urged people in potentially affected areas to move to safer ground. Police in Nepal said Friday morning that the country’s death toll had risen to 469 from 390 a day earlier. China had not updated its report of three deaths in Tibet. Together, the two countries have said more than 1,500 people are missing.

Rescuers have pulled out survivors caked in dark brown mud and helicopters have lifted stranded people to safety after catastrophic floods on the Nepal-China border. The countries raced to respond Friday after the flooding killed more than 470 people and left more than 1,500 missing. Nepal police said the country’s death toll had risen to 469, injured people were taken to hospitals and helicopters had carried more than 3,000 stranded people to safety. In contrast on the Chinese side, there was little information on survivors, although the death toll rose to five. Both sides were concerned about more flooding and told rescuers to remain on high alert.