{"id":331675,"date":"2026-08-28T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T07:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331675\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T07:34:08","slug":"more-than-1300-unaccounted-for-after-catastrophic-flash-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331675\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 1,300 unaccounted for after catastrophic flash floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(CNN) &#8211; A New York teenager and her mother are among those missing amid the catastrophic flash flooding in Nepal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fourteen-year-old Rashi Shashidharan and her 54-year-old mother, Rekha Shashidharan, are unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The teenager\u2019s uncle said the two had been traveling in the region. He said he last spoke to them about an hour before the floods struck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">More than 1,300 people are missing, with that number including at least 700 foreigners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The death toll is more than 460.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The cause of the disaster hasn\u2019t yet been confirmed, but the U.S. Geological Survey said it may have been the result of a glacial collapse and resulting landslide. A glacial collapse occurs when a piece of ice breaks off a glacier and goes down a slope.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(CNN) &#8211; A New York teenager and her mother are among those missing amid the catastrophic flash flooding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[827,15322,14236,41219,2101,4750,85781,93,9,11,10,1068],"class_list":["post-331675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-china","tag-flood","tag-flooding","tag-glacier","tag-india","tag-missing","tag-nepal","tag-new","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}