{"id":597173,"date":"2026-08-27T02:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/597173\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T02:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:46:10","slug":"nepal-tibet-flash-flood-on-nepal-tibet-border-kills-more-than-160-with-hundreds-of-tourists-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/597173\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal-Tibet: Flash flood on Nepal-Tibet border kills more than 160, with hundreds of tourists missing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recap: More than 150 dead and hundreds missing after flash floods hit Nepal-Tibet borderpublished at 22:39 BST 26 August<\/p>\n

22:39 BST 26 August<\/p>\n

\"\"Katie Williams
Live reporter<\/p>\n

\"RescuersImage source, EPAImage caption, <\/p>\n

Rescuers transport an elderly woman in Trishuli Bazar, in the Nuwakot district of Nepal<\/p>\n

More than 150 people are dead after a flash flood hit the Nepal-Tibet border earlier on Wednesday, affecting an area popular with pilgrims and trekkers. Here’s the latest: <\/p>\n

Over 500 tourists are missing in Nepal, including more than 100 from India, 54 from the US, 33 from the UK, and more than 100 from Nepal itself. <\/p>\n

In Tibet, at least three people have been killed and 265 are missing, according to Chinese state media.<\/p>\n

Authorities initially thought an earthquake caused the flooding, but it is now believed that a landslide triggered the seismic activity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The entire nation is “shocked and deeply distressed”, says Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah<\/a>. One trekking guide in Nepal’s Rasuwa region tells the BBC<\/a> he is praying his missing sister will be found alive. <\/p>\n

Dramatic video footage shows thick brown water surging through the landscape, splitting bridges in two<\/a> and leaving destruction in its wake.<\/p>\n

At the Gyirong border crossing, CCTV footage<\/a> shows people running for their lives before a wall of water slams into the building.<\/p>\n

The number of casualties could continue to climb over the coming days, as the true scale of the disaster emerges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recap: More than 150 dead and hundreds missing after flash floods hit Nepal-Tibet borderpublished at 22:39 BST 26…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-597173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}