Local residents watch as a helicopter flies above houses lying deluged in sludge after flash floods at Devighat, Bidur Municipality in Nepal's Nuwakot district on 27 August, 2026.
Local residents watch as a helicopter flies above houses lying deluged in sludge after flash floods at Devighat, Bidur Municipality in Nepal's Nuwakot district on 27 August, 2026.
South Asia

Nepal flood death toll rise to 270

AFP Kathmandu, Nepal

Devastating floods on the Nepal-Tibet border have killed at least 270 people, Nepali police said in an update Thursday, a day after the disaster.

Chinese state media had earlier reported "major casualties" from a mudslide at a Tibet border hub with three dead, taking the total killed to at least 273.

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