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Nepal Floods Live Updates:
More than 130 Indians, including dozens of Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrims, are missing after massive flash floods devastated areas along the Nepal-Tibet border on Wednesday, August 26. Several others are stranded, while Indian authorities and state governments have opened helplines and begun efforts to locate affected travellers.
Among those unaccounted for are tourists and pilgrims from Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. The whereabouts of 37 tourists from Tamil Nadu remain unknown, while contact has been lost with a 32-member Kailash-Mansarovar Yatra group from Kolkata. The Isha Foundation has also said 77 of its members are missing. In Maharashtra, four of seven stranded tourists have been confirmed safe, with efforts under way to reach the remaining three.
India has sent 10 tonnes of humanitarian assistance to Nepal to support relief operations. Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh have activated helplines or control rooms for affected Indians and their families.
The floods have killed at least 160 people — 157 in Nepal and three in Tibet’s Gyirong County — while hundreds remain missing. An ice-and-rock avalanche from a glacier is believed to have temporarily blocked a river before releasing a powerful surge downstream.
Indian regions downstream of Nepal are also on alert over the risk of rising river levels. In Bihar, authorities in Muzaffarpur are monitoring the Gandak and have inspected embankments and flood-control gates.
Follow Nepal Floods Live Updates for the latest on missing Indians, rescue operations, helplines, casualties and alerts across the region.
Among those unaccounted for are tourists and pilgrims from Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. The whereabouts of 37 tourists from Tamil Nadu remain unknown, while contact has been lost with a 32-member Kailash-Mansarovar Yatra group from Kolkata. The Isha Foundation has also said 77 of its members are missing. In Maharashtra, four of seven stranded tourists have been confirmed safe, with efforts under way to reach the remaining three.
India has sent 10 tonnes of humanitarian assistance to Nepal to support relief operations. Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh have activated helplines or control rooms for affected Indians and their families.
The floods have killed at least 160 people — 157 in Nepal and three in Tibet’s Gyirong County — while hundreds remain missing. An ice-and-rock avalanche from a glacier is believed to have temporarily blocked a river before releasing a powerful surge downstream.
Indian regions downstream of Nepal are also on alert over the risk of rising river levels. In Bihar, authorities in Muzaffarpur are monitoring the Gandak and have inspected embankments and flood-control gates.
Follow Nepal Floods Live Updates for the latest on missing Indians, rescue operations, helplines, casualties and alerts across the region.
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