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More than 900 people have died and 4200 have been missing since the floods in Nepal

There are 590 missing foreigners displaced from 39 countries to Nepal, while the search for a tunnel for the Rasuwagadhi Hydroelectric Project has been completed, where dozens of workers were believed to have been trapped, but no one has been found.

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Nepalese authorities have reported that some 900 people have died as a result of severe flooding last week inthe north of the country, on the border with China, and more than 4200 people are missing.

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority has detailed on social media that the death toll so far is 903 and 267 people injured . In addition, 4247 people are missing. 



Thus, among the missing, which were around 2500 on Sunday, there are 592 foreigners, and for the time being 10,451 peoplehave been rescued , including the 252 who were taken by air after the disaster.

On the other hand, there have been at least 16 deaths and about 550 missing persons in China, including 261 foreigners, and three other bodies have been found in India.

590 foreigners from 39 countries are missing.

 

590 foreigners from 39 countries have been missing since26August due to severe floods that devastated northern and central Nepal, according to the Nepalese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"An emergency control room has been set up in the Ministry to coordinate actions with the relevant agencies and families of missing persons," Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Lok Bahadur Chhetri Poudel said at a press conference.

The search in the tunnel of a power station in Rasuwa has been completed.


A rescue team from the Nepalese Army has already completed the search begun in a tunnel of the Rasuwagadhi Hydroelectric Project. They thought there were dozens of workers there, but they didn't find anyone.

 

 

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