Flash floods have killed at least 160 people and left hundreds missing in a border area of Nepal and China. Experts determined a glacial collapse caused the disaster in the warming Himalayan region. Nepalese police report 157 dead, while China’s state broadcaster reports at least three dead there and over 260 missing. Drone footage shows roads destroyed and buildings buried. At least 400 people were missing in Nepal. Many were on a pilgrimage to a sacred Hindu site. India, the U.S., Australia, Britain and Canada reported their citizens were missing. U.S. seismologists say the glacial collapse measured a magnitude of 5.2 and sent debris flowing downstream with catastrophic impact. Nepalese climate experts said one river rose 27 feet in half an hour.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority in Nepal says 826 people were missing and the death toll from the country’s flash floods rose to 165. Rescue teams were searching Thursday for survivors along the Nepal-China border after a catastrophic torrent of floods and mud swept through several communities a day earlier following a glacial collapse. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV separately reported earlier Thursday that 260 of the 558 missing people in Tibet were foreigners and two villagers were rescued. At least three people were killed as of Thursday morning, it said.