KATHMANDU — Authorities in Nepal have warned of the risk of further flooding after heavy rainfall, as China sheds light on the scale of the disaster in its Tibet region.
\n\nFive days after surging floodwaters from a glacier collapse buried communities across the region in thick mud, rescuers were still struggling to reach devastated communities as the full scale of the destruction emerged.
\n\n“The disaster here is overwhelming,” Ferrin Cole, an operations director at Crisis Response International, told NBC News on Sunday. “The flood that came down that mountain just wiped out cities. We’re going in as fast as we can to get people the help that they need.”
\n\nCole said his team would be working to provide help to those in need a locate missing persons, but that working in mud “is actually pretty dangerous.”
\n\n“The longer that death and mud are together, diseases breed, and so we’re always just aware of that,” he added.
\n\nApproximately 100 Americans are among the missing across Nepal and China’s Tibet region, the State Department said Saturday.
\n\nHow did the catastrophic Nepal-Tibet flood happen?
\n\nIn Nepal, the death toll has risen to 752, with over 2,500 people still missing, including 592 foreign nationals…
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