{"id":870270,"date":"2026-08-27T13:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/870270\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:10:14","slug":"nepal-flash-floods-live-updates-more-than-160-up-to-34-australians-missing-dod-glacial-collapse-cause-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/870270\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal Flash Floods live updates: More than 160; Up to 34 Australians missing; Dod glacial collapse cause tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old living in Nepal\u00a0said that\u00a0he was shocked and \u201cfilled with despair\u201d the moment he learnt people he knew lost relatives in the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nine.com.au\/\" class=\"sc-ZStEl fijHCo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nine.com.au<\/a>, the 17-year-old from Nepal\u2019s Kathmandu Valley said that he found out about the disaster while scrolling Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was shocked and filled with despair when I heard the news,\u201d the teenager told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nine.com.au\/\" class=\"sc-ZStEl fijHCo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nine.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have seen multiple people post about\u00a0their relatives who were working at hydropower projects and are missing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMostly, those working at these hydropower projects, the local population, and tourists seem to be affected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that Nepal\u00a0is one of the countries that shoulder\u00a0the burden of the climate crisis, and the flash flood that\u00a0has claimed the lives of more than 160 people\u00a0amplifies that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen richer countries pollute the environment, raise global temperature, and contribute to climate change, it is poorer countries like us that have to bear the brunt of the weight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur glaciers are melting, our rivers are swelling, entire villages have to be relocated for people\u2019s safety, yet we are never in the news cycle unless a huge tragedy has taken place.<\/p>\n<p>He added that people need to be wary of relief funds, as scams have begun running rampant online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack when the earthquake of 2015 happened, a lot of the money was stolen and rerouted by corrupt NGOs,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old living in Nepal\u00a0said that\u00a0he was shocked and \u201cfilled with despair\u201d the moment he learnt people he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-870270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}