Rescuers Face Peril as Flood Lake Threatens to Breach in Nepal
Rescue teams are conducting highly dangerous operations as a flood-formed lake upstream threatens to overflow its banks. The death toll has reached 682, with nearly 3,000 people still unaccounted for after flash floods and landslides along the Nepal-Tibet border. The risk of a sudden breach is complicating efforts to reach survivors.
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The disaster along the Nepal-Tibet border has left rescue teams conducting extremely risky operations as an upstream flood-formed lake threatens to breach. The Nepali army has deployed helicopters to reach survivors, including more than 100 people trapped in a hydropower tunnel. Relief camps now shelter grieving families.
The Red Cross estimates roughly 93,000 people affected across
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