China-Nepal floods: 261 foreigners missing in Tibet, online rumours targeted - South China Morning Post
Severe flooding along the China-Nepal border has left hundreds of foreign citizens missing, with China releasing country-specific data for the first time. Rescue efforts are ongoing as authorities warn of further geological hazards and rising water levels.
Why it matters
The disaster represents a significant humanitarian crisis requiring international coordination and highlights the vulnerability of border regions to climate-related geological events.
China said on Sunday that 261 foreign citizens were missing after last week’s deadly floods along the border between its Tibet autonomous region and Nepal.
The missing foreigners were from 23 different countries and included 104 Nepalese citizens, authorities in Tibet’s Gyirong county told reporters.
Also unaccounted for are 49 people from India; 33 Latvians; 18 from the United States; 15 from Britain; six each from Canada and Australia; four from South Africa; three each from Malaysia, Germany and Russia; two from Ireland, Estonia, France, the Netherlands and New Zealand; and one each from Kazakhstan, Finland, Lithuania, Portugal, Ukraine, Spain and Hungary.
China has so far confirmed 16 deaths after Wednesday’s glacier collapse, while 546 people are missing. In Nepal, at least 788 have been confirmed dead, with more than 2,500 still unaccounted for.
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