2026 Nepal–Tibet floods

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On the morning of 26 August 2026, a series of flash floods and debris flows destroyed the Gyirong Port on the China–Nepal border and struck dozens of settlements along a 72 km (45 mi) stretch of the Trishuli River in Nepal. These events are also known as the 2026 Nepal-China floods, Bhotekoshi flood, or Rasuwa flood. At least 1,455 deaths and 5,285 missing persons in Nepal, and 43 deaths and 519 missing in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China were reported. The flood carried the bodies of some victims 250 km (160 mi) away into neighbouring India. The precipitating geological event, initially reported as a glacier collapse in the Langtang region of the Himalayas, caused a chain reaction whose tremors were detected by seismometers worldwide, with magnitudes reaching Ms 5.2. According to experts at the National Society for Earthquake Technology–Nepal (NSET), the University of Reading and Newcastle University, the flood was triggered by a large rock-ice avalanche originating from the Lirung...

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