Nepal Flood Toll Rises to 682 With 2,400 Still Missing
Rescuers pulled 4,400 people to safety after Wednesday's flooding, including 350 trapped in a hydropower tunnel at Trishuli.
Search Across the Disaster Zone
Rescue teams in Nepal are still looking for people swept away by flooding that began on Wednesday, with the number unaccounted for reaching 2,400, according to Eenadu. The Telugu newspaper reports the death toll has risen to 682.
Of those missing, 320 are foreign nationals and 287 are Indian, Eenadu reports. Four days after the disaster, hopes of finding survivors are fading.
Rescue teams have moved about 4,400 people trapped in various areas to safety, among them 167 Indians. The rest include citizens of China, Ukraine, Germany, Malta, the United States, Turkiye, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Oman, Belgium and Bulgaria. With roads destroyed, many are being evacuated by helicopter.
Tunnel Rescue and Relief Effort
Soldiers crawled through mud to reach people trapped in a tunnel at the Trishuli hydropower project, BBC News Telugu reports. It says Reuters reported that the Nepal prime minister's office released video of the operation, and that 350 people were brought out of the tunnel safely.
Eenadu reports that 11,000 security personnel and 5,000 Nepali army staff are taking part in relief work. Eleven medical staff and tunnel experts from India joined the effort, working at the Trishuli hydropower tunnel on Saturday.
In Devighat village, residents were seen carrying belongings out of homes buried under thick mud. Rescuers spent four hours freeing Guna Maya Bohara, aged 97, from mud at a care centre, and she is recovering in hospital. Her grandson Deepak Bohara, who travelled from Kathmandu, said she came out like a fighter, but that the deaths of others there left him shaken.
An Indian Family Feared Lost
In Parvathipuram, Andhra Pradesh, relatives of Santosh Kumar Sahu said they now believe he and his family are alive, TV9 Telugu reports. Sahu, 47, his wife Surabhipadi, 43, son Spandana Sahu, 14, and daughter Saina Kumari Sahu, 13, had travelled to India recently and gone on a Manasarovar pilgrimage through a travel company.
The family was returning through Nepal when the flooding struck, and word spread locally that they had been caught in it. On Saturday, Sahu's uncle in Mumbai and his brother Murali Sahu in South Africa passed on information from the travel vehicle's driver that the family had left the affected area about two hours before the floods.
Relatives say neither Delhi police, Nepali officials nor India's central government has officially confirmed the family as missing. They have asked people to draw no conclusions until official details emerge. There has been no direct contact from the family, and their whereabouts are not yet confirmed.
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