Survivors pulled from mud as death toll from Nepal-Tibet floods climbs

Rescuers pulled out survivors caked in dark brown mud, and helicopters lifted stranded people to safety, as Nepal and China raced to respond to <a href="https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/08/27/photos-show-scale-of-devastation-heartbreak-after-flash-floods-in-nepal-tibet/">catastrophic flash floods</a> that killed nearly 600 people and left almost 2500 missing. Rescue teams were put on high alert for more flooding from a new lake that formed high up on the Himalayan mountains after the initial floods on Wednesday. Experts warned that the lake, created after a glacier collapse that triggered the floods, was starting to overflow. Nepal's army was deployed to help rescue more than 100 people believed trapped inside a tunnel at a hydropower plant located 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. The floods <a href="https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/08/28/death-toll-from-catastrophic-floods-in-nepal-and-tibet-rises-to-469/">have killed 579 in Nepal</a>, the country's disaster-management authority said Friday.