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Nepal says death toll rises to 987, bringing total killed past 1,000
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Severe flooding originating along the China-Nepal border has resulted in over 1,000 fatalities combined between the two regions. Rescue operations are continuing into their seventh day as authorities recover more bodies and thousands of people remain unaccounted for.
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The disaster has caused a massive loss of life and hundreds of missing persons across Nepal and Tibet, prompting extensive ongoing rescue and recovery operations.
KATMANDU, Nepal: Devastating floods on the China-Nepal border have killed at least 987 people in Nepal, the disaster authority said Tuesday, taking overall deaths to more than 1,000. Chinese state media earlier confirmed 16 people were killed in Tibet, bringing the total toll from Wednesday’s disaster to 1,003. The number of missing in Nepal dropped to 3,916, as rescue efforts entered a seventh day, and the bodies recovered rose. In China, state media say there 546 people missing, taking t...
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