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More than 750 people have died and over 3,000 remain unaccounted for after flash floods and landslides tore through Nepal and China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, authorities and local media said Sunday.
Nepal accounts for the bulk of the missing, with 2,498 people still not found, hundreds of them foreign nationals.
Across the border in Tibet, Chinese authorities put the toll at 16 dead and 546 missing.
Among those being searched for are 933 hydropower workers, 589 foreign nationals and 127 Nepali guides who had been travelling with tourists, alongside residents of several districts hit by the water.
Rescue teams numbering close to 20,000 have brought 8,186 people to safety so far.
Helicopters have lifted out 279 hydropower workers and 227 foreign nationals.
At Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, families have been arriving for four days in search of news about relatives caught in the floods near the Nepal-China border.
They scan missing-person notices taped to the walls, run their eyes down lists of the survivors and the dead, and hold up photographs on their phones, hoping someone recognises a face.
Some break down as the identification work continues. The water carved through Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts, flattening houses and burying entire settlements before pushing downstream along the Trishuli River.
The floods began Wednesday when a glacier gave way on the China-Nepal border, releasing a wall of water and debris into the Himalayan valleys below.
Washington pledged more than $3.6 million in aid on Saturday, including emergency food for up to 10,000 households.
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