Hundreds feared stuck in hydropower tunnels as flood deaths pass 950 in Nepal and China
Catastrophic flash floods on the Nepal-China border have resulted in over 1,000 deaths and thousands of missing persons. Rescue operations are currently focused on trapped workers in hydropower tunnels, though hopes for survivors are fading.
Why it matters
This disaster represents a significant humanitarian crisis and highlights the vulnerability of infrastructure projects to extreme climate events.
Rescue crews are continuing to search for more than 4,400 people missing since last week's catastrophic flash floods on the Nepal-China border.
At least 900 workers are unaccounted-for at 12 hydropower projects damaged by the floods in Nepal's Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong says nine missing Australians had crossed the border into China at the time of the disaster.
Link copied Share Share article Rescuers in Nepal are racing to free hundreds of workers believed to be trapped in tunnels at hydropower sites buried by mud, with the death toll from catastrophic flooding climbing and increasingly desperate families keep searching for missing loved ones.
The combined deaths in Nepal and China have surpassed 1,000, with more than 4,400 people missing, including 42 Australians.
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