{"id":875990,"date":"2026-09-01T08:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/875990\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T08:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:26:11","slug":"relief-as-australian-missing-in-nepal-tibet-flood-disaster-found-alive-nepal-tibet-flood-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/875990\/","title":{"rendered":"Relief as Australian missing in Nepal-Tibet flood disaster found alive | Nepal-Tibet flood disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">An Australian believed to be missing after floods <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/sep\/01\/nepal-china-border-area-gyirong-port-almost-entirely-cut-off-missing-australians-ntwnfb\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ravaged the Nepal-Tibet border<\/a> last week has been found alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The person made contact with officials from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Dfat) on Tuesday from Tibet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">They are receiving support from Australian consular officers and have spoken with their family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">This brings the number of Australians missing in the flash floods down from 43 to 42. Another Australian, 25-year-old Cara Severino, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/aug\/28\/we-praise-god-australian-woman-feared-missing-in-nepal-flooding-makes-contact-with-family\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was safely located<\/a> at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a data-name=\"placeholder\" href=\"https:\/\/interactive.guim.co.uk\/uploader\/embed\/2026\/08\/archive-zip\/giv-32554MjEHz1Sst38p\/\" class=\"dcr-olkhl1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A map of the flood affected area<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, said the government was \u201cincredibly thankful\u201d the person had been found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cIt\u2019s hard to imagine the sense of relief their loved ones must be feeling after what will have been an incredibly harrowing few days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Due to privacy obligations the foreign affairs department was unable to provide further details about the individual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The death toll from the \u2060unprecedented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/aug\/27\/what-caused-the-catastrophic-flash-flood-in-nepal-and-tibet-and-how-does-a-glacier-collapse\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deluge of ice, rock, mud \u200band debris<\/a> on Wednesday last week has risen to 939 people, with 16 more dead reported in Tibet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">More than 4,400 are missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Wong said the government needed to \u201cremain realistic\u201d about the days ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cCommunications remain difficult, infrastructure has been destroyed and many areas are still difficult to reach,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cAs each day passes, our grave concerns for those still unaccounted for inevitably grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cOur thoughts remain firmly with all those waiting for news of family and friends, and with the search and rescue teams working in extraordinarily difficult circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Australia has sent a $8m assistance package for affected communities on the border between Nepal and the Chinese region of Tibet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Nepal has deployed nearly 20,000 security personnel to support search and rescue, and Chinese state media has reported that 2,141 emergency personnel have been deployed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Australian believed to be missing after floods ravaged the Nepal-Tibet border last week has been found alive.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-875990","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\/875990","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=875990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}