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Nepal-Tibet floods: rescuers work through night at hydropower tunnel asnumber of missing climbs to almost 3,000 – latest updates

Nepali army digs through thick mud that has filled tunnel at plant in Rasuwa, as death toll from flash floods rises to 626 with seven confirmed dead in Tibet

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Taz Ali (now) and Wendy Frew (earlier)29 Aug 2026, 08:27 amUpdated 24 min ago1 min readIndiaIndia

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Nepal-Tibet floods: rescuers work through night at hydropower tunnel as number of missing climbs to almost 3,000 – latest updates

Nepali army digs through thick mud that has filled tunnel at plant in Rasuwa, as death toll from flash floods rises to 626 with seven confirmed dead in Tibet

‘The flood took everything I have’: survivors grieve for relatives and homes swept away in Nepal

Chinese rescuers find ‘nothing but ruins’ at border crossing as Nepal seeks help to ID and store the dead

The Nepalese government said the army is digging through the thick mud that has filled a hydropower tunnel where people are believed to be trapped inside.

“The work to open the tunnel’s entrance has been intensified since early on Saturday morning,” the Nepalese prime minister’s office said in a post on Facebook.

‘The flood took everything I have’: survivors grieve for relatives and homes swept away in Nepal

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Source: The Guardian · Taz Ali (now) and Wendy Frew (earlier). Published 29 Aug 2026, 08:27 am.

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