The Trishuli River glacial-collapse flood

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   Update 45 sep 18:21 UTC5 dagen later

   Nine Days Buried, Then Voices Answered: Nepal Tunnel Rescue Defies 1,380 Dead

   Two men survived nine days sealed in a Nepal hydropower tunnel. Two more lived ten days. Behind them: 1,380 dead, thousands missing, and 121 possibly still underground.

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   • No confirmed account of how anyone survived nine to ten days underground, or their medical condition
   • No reconciled final toll, and no verified total for how many remain inside tunnels versus missing elsewhere
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   Update 331 aug 18:15 UTC3 dagen later

   Nepal Flood Toll Hits 919 as Tunnel Search Becomes Race for Hundreds

   More than 900 confirmed dead and nearly 4,800 missing, with hundreds of hydropower workers trapped in mud-filled tunnels along the Trishuli River.

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   • No verified contact with or rescue of workers trapped in the hydropower tunnels.
   • No settled reconciliation of the competing 919, 939 and 1,000-plus death tolls.
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   Update 229 aug 03:16 UTC37 uur later

   A Glacier Fell a Kilometer, Then the Valleys Drowned

   More than 1,000 are dead after ice and rock fell a kilometer into a Himalayan valley, sending floods through Nepal and Tibet. Scientists blame glacier collapse, not a quake, as missing tolls diverge by the thousands.

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   • No agreed missing total; reports range from hundreds of foreigners to thousands overall
   • No verified single timeline for damming, bursting and downstream arrival
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   Update 127 aug 14:43 UTC

   Nearly 1,500 Missing After Glacier Collapse Floods Nepal-Tibet Valleys

   At least 160 are dead and nearly 1,500 are missing, including hundreds of foreigners, after a glacier collapse sent mud and water through the Trishuli and Bhote Koshi valleys — with Nepal and China warning another lake could burst.

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   • Exact surge height, road and power losses, aid amounts and delivery, and nationality-by-nationality missing lists.
   • Whether the source was a Tibet glacial-lake outburst or a Nepal Bhote Koshi glacier avalanche, or both in sequence.