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Thank you for joining our continuing coverage of the flood crisis in Nepal and Tibet. Here’s what you need to know:
- The number of Australians missing in the Nepal-Tibet flood disaster has been revised down from 39 to 38 after Cara Severino made contact with her parents. The 26-year-old Australian said she was stranded along the Langtang Trek, and faces a lengthy hike to reach Kathmandu on foot.
- The death toll has risen to 579 and at least 1924 people are missing, including 517 foreign tourists, according to Nepal’s disaster management authority. China has reported seven deaths and 558 missing, although it is unclear if the numbers overlap.
- A total of 121 foreign nationals have been rescued since Wednesday, according to an update from the Nepal Tourism Board late on Friday.
The Nepal Tourism Board has released an update on the foreign travellers rescued following Wednesday’s devastating flash flood.
In the update released at 8pm Friday AEST, the board said 121 tourists had been rescued including 85 from India, 16 from China and nine from South Korea.
No Australians were listed. Three of those rescued were considered “nationality not confirmed”.
“All necessary efforts are under way to rescue and evacuate injured, stranded and affected people,” the tourism board said.
The Nepali Army has released video showing the rescue of survivors caked in mud who were trapped in the hydropower tunnel impacted by the floods.
Nepal’s army was deployed to help rescue more than 100 people believed trapped inside the tunnel in the country’s worst-hit district. Like elsewhere in the disaster zone, their work was complicated by thick layers of mud that covered the site.
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The Sydney Morning Herald’s chief photographer Kate Geraghty is on the ground in Kathmandu with South-East Asia correspondent Zach Hope, and has filed the below images from the scene.
A Chinese rescue team reaching the all-but-obliterated Gyirong border crossing complex for the first time on Friday and found “nothing but ruins”.
A glacier collapse on Wednesday unleashed a huge torrent of rock, ice, mud and debris through Himalayan mountain river systems.
Surveillance camera footage from the worst-hit Gyirong border crossing complex showed huge torrents of water and debris engulfing buildings and people trying to flee.
Only on Friday were rescuers able to reach that area. State media reported that the Chinese team of 21 rescuers and a search-and-rescue dog crossed mountains and valleys and used ropes to navigate forests and cliffs after roads to the complex, hemmed in by steep Himalayan slopes, were destroyed.
“There was no road … it was all virgin forest and sheer cliffs,” rescue worker Zou Mingqi said. At the complex, “as far as the eye could see, there was nothing but ruins”.
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Thank you for joining our continuing coverage of the flood crisis in Nepal and Tibet. Here’s what you need to know:
- The number of Australians missing in the Nepal-Tibet flood disaster has been revised down from 39 to 38 after Cara Severino made contact with her parents. The 26-year-old Australian said she was stranded along the Langtang Trek, and faces a lengthy hike to reach Kathmandu on foot.
- The death toll has risen to 579 and at least 1924 people are missing, including 517 foreign tourists, according to Nepal’s disaster management authority. China has reported seven deaths and 558 missing, although it is unclear if the numbers overlap.
- A total of 121 foreign nationals have been rescued since Wednesday, according to an update from the Nepal Tourism Board late on Friday.
