Nepal-Tibet Flash Floods Kill Hundreds as Glacier Collapse Leaves Over 1,400 Missing

• •AP reports the Nepal death toll has reached 469, though other sources cite 389, reflecting the difficulty of confirming casualties in remote terrain.
• •More than 1,400 people remain missing across Nepal and Tibet, including 260 foreigners in the Tibetan affected zone according to Chinese state media.
• •Nepal has deployed 13,000 rescue personnel, but debris-blocked rivers and rising lakes threaten renewed flooding.
• •The Bhotekoshi River obstruction poses the most immediate secondary risk, with water levels rising behind a debris dam.
• •The disaster originated from a glacier collapse, consistent with increasing glacial instability across the Himalayas.

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