Nepal, Tibet floods death toll hits 750, over 3000 still missing
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Nepalese counterpart in a Saturday telephone call that the mudslide was their “most severe cross-border disaster” in recent years and that rescue operations were of unprecedented difficulty and complexity, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Rescue operations have been suspended several times since Friday because of bad weather and concerns that a lake formed across the Nepal-China border by a mudslide from Wednesday’s glacier collapse could trigger fresh flooding after it began overflowing into rivers in Nepal.
Video| Thousands still missing after Nepal floods: TUNNELS BECOME A FOCUS OF RESCUE EFFORTS Nepal’s rescue effort is now focused on hundreds of people believed to be trapped in tunnels at hydropower plants after a torrent of ice, rock, mud and debris crashed down Himalayan rivers.
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