{"id":871882,"date":"2026-08-28T21:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/871882\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T21:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:06:09","slug":"nepal-floods-live-updates-death-toll-rises-to-579-australians-from-sydney-melbourne-remain-missing-china-nepal-resume-rescues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/871882\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal floods live updates: Death toll rises to 579; Australians from Sydney, Melbourne remain missing; China, Nepal resume rescues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese rescue team reached the all-but-obliterated Gyirong border crossing complex for the first time on Friday and found \u201cnothing but ruins\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A glacier collapse on Wednesday unleashed a huge torrent of rock, ice, mud and debris through Himalayan mountain river systems.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance camera footage from the worst-hit Gyirong border crossing complex showed huge torrents of water and debris engulfing buildings and people trying to flee.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Only on Friday were rescuers able to reach that area. State media reported that the Chinese team of 21 rescuers and a search-and-rescue dog crossed mountains and valleys and used ropes to navigate forests and cliffs after roads to the complex, hemmed in by steep Himalayan slopes, were destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no road &#8230; it was all virgin forest and sheer cliffs,\u201d rescue worker Zou Mingqi said. At the complex, \u201cas far as the eye could see, there was nothing but ruins\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chinese rescue team reached the all-but-obliterated Gyirong border crossing complex for the first time on Friday and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-871882","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\/871882","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=871882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}