Nepal, China warn of fresh flood risks as lake threatens to burst
Nepal and China had both warned earlier of fresh risks of flooding in the Himalayas as a lake that developed across their border because of debris from the flash flood threatened to burst.
Officials in Nepal’s Rasuwa district have received a notice saying a lake has broken its banks, two days after a flash flood hit the region, Narendra Pariyar, the most senior bureaucrat of the district, said on Friday.
Rescuers and residents on the lower banks in Nepal had already been directed to move to higher ground, and all Chinese personnel and vehicles had also withdrawn to safer areas as risks of the lake bursting and potential secondary disasters such as mountain collapses and avalanches intensified.
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