Nine Americans rescued but 85 still missing as Nepal-Tibet flood death toll climbs to nearly 800
Pramod Poudel, 34, from Uckfield in East Sussex, is preparing to fly to Nepal after losing all contact with his newlywed wife Sumitra and other family members following the glacial flood that destroyed their village.Rescuers were forced to halt pumping air to more than 100 workers trapped at the Trishuli 3A hydropower site after heavy overnight rainfall inundated the excavation area.China's reconstruction efforts on its side of the border underscore the cross-border scale of the disaster, with Nepal's home minister Sudan Gurung confirming air is now being pumped to workers trapped underground.Satellite imagery captures the glacial collapse that triggered the flood, which has left nearly 2,500 people missing and a confirmed death toll now exceeding 700.
Morgues across Nepal are overflowing and mass burials have begun in Bharatpur as bodies continue to wash up along riverbanks, many too disfigured to identify. The State Department said nine Americans were successfully evacuated, while around 85 remain unaccounted for, among them Hindu pilgrims Amita Amin and Jitendra Patel, who vanished during a sacred Mount Kailash pilgrimage. A seven-year-old girl was pulled alive from debris, and Australian hiker Cara Severino, 26, survived days on a tractor before embassy staff drove her to Kathmandu. More than 3,000 people in total are still missing after Wednesday's glacier collapse sent a wall of ice and mud tearing through Nepal and Tibet at nearly 200kmph.
