A week after the deadly floods in Nepal, rescuers work to find survivors
Rescuers in Nepal are working to locate survivors trapped in hydropower plants following devastating flash floods caused by a glacial collapse. The disaster has buried infrastructure under mud and debris, complicating search efforts for thousands of missing people.
Why it matters
This highlights the increasing vulnerability of mountain communities to climate-induced natural disasters and the extreme difficulty of search and rescue in post-flood landscapes.
KATHMANDU, Nepal — A week after powerful flash floods devastated riverside communities in Tibet and Nepal and killed more than 1,000 people, rescuers are still racing to locate survivors who may be trapped inside around a dozen hydro-power plants buried under the mud.
Climate A melting glacier contributed to the deadly Nepal floods. We can expect more like this But to rescue them, one man overseeing part of a rescue says, first, they have to find the tunnels where the men and women are believed to have fled. Just finding the tunnels is an achievement, amid a post-flood landscape that tunneling expert Arnold Dix described as "like a bomb's gone off."
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