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Nepal-Tibet disaster: death toll exceeds 800 amid warningsof new flash floods – as it happened

Searches continue as mass burials of unidentified victims begin days after floods and landslides hit Nepal-Tibet border

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Harry Cockburn (now); Marina Dunbar, Mabel Banfield-Nwachi and Yohannes Lowe (earlier)30 Aug 2026, 06:35 pmUpdated 3h ago1 min readIndiaIndia

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Nepal-Tibet disaster: death toll exceeds 800 amid warnings of new flash floods – as it happened

Searches continue as mass burials of unidentified victims begin days after floods and landslides hit Nepal-Tibet border

‘The river has taken everything’: people return to remains of homes

Death toll rises amid new flood fears and race to free group trapped in tunnel

Nepal’s Chitwan district has become the site of mass burials for hundreds of unidentified victims whose bodies were swept away by the devastating flash floods on Wednesday.

Authorities have dug ⁠hundreds of graves in the district’s Devghat forest, with the forest trials serving as a temporary burial ground for bodies too badly decomposed to be identified.

‘The river has taken everything’: people return to remains of homes

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Source: The Guardian · Harry Cockburn (now); Marina Dunbar, Mabel Banfield-Nwachi and Yohannes Lowe (earlier). Published 30 Aug 2026, 06:35 pm.

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