Rescuers are rushing to find flood survivors trapped inside hydropower tunnels, with more than 900 workers missing. • Death toll climbs: The total number of people killed following last week’s flash floods on the Nepal-China border now stands at 955 , according to Nepali and Chinese authorities. Some 4,471 people remain unaccounted for in both countries, officials say. • Tunnel searches: Rescue crews and foreign specialists are racing to find scores of workers feared trapped inside hydropower tunnels in Nepal, after thick mud buried the facilities during last week’s devastating flash floods. More than 900 workers at various projects remain missing. • Risks remain: Chinese weather forecasters warned of rain and poor weather conditions in Gyirong, which could cause water levels in a nearby barrier lake to rise. The situation is further complicated by the potential for glaciers near the flood zone to collapse , according to officials. Learn more about how to help flood victims here. The US Embassy in Nepal issued updated travel advice today, warning of an ongoing risk of flooding and landslides, while calling on US citizens to postpone “non-essential travel” to areas north of Dhunche, a Nepali village in the hard-hit Rasuwa District. The embassy raised the possibility of heavy rain over the coming days, which could cause “flash flooding, debris flows, landslides and transportation disruptions,” citing Nepal’s Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. The embassy called on US citizens to “postpone non-essential travel north of Dhunche, including travel to Syafrubesi, Timure, Langtang-area trailheads and Rasuwagadhi,” as well as to move to higher ground if water can be seen to be rising rapidly or authorities issue a warning. Hundreds of people have died since catastrophic flooding hit the Nepal-China border region last Wednesday, with thousands more reported missing. Here’s a look at the disastrous impact of the flooding in numbers: At least 939 people have died in the floods in Nepal, the country’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) said in its latest update a short while ago. A further 3,925 people are missing in the catastrophe, the NDRRMA said. Some 583 foreign nationals are among the missing, the Nepal Tourism Board said in a statement earlier today. Another 315 foreign nationals have been rescued, the tourism board said, including people from India, China, Germany, Bulgaria, Turkey, Italy, the United States, Malta, Switzerland, Russia, Portugal and Oman. A further five foreign nationals are in contact with authorities, the tourism board said, three of which are Spanish, one Belgian and one from the US. At least 16 people have died in the flooding in China, state broadcaster CCTV reported yesterday morning local time. At least 546 people are also missing in China, CCTV reported. Among the missing are at least 261 foreigners from 23 countries , authorities said during a press conference yesterday. Of those missing, 104 are from Nepal, 49 are from India, 33 are from Latvia, 18 are from the United States, and 15 are from the United Kingdom, Chinese authorities said. Foreign nationals from Canada, Australia, South Africa, Russia, Malaysia, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Estonia, France, Ireland, Finland, Lithuania, Portugal, Ukraine, Spain, Hungary and Kazakhstan are also missing, Chinese authorities said yesterday, CNN’s Simone McCarthy, Laura Sharman and Kosh Koirala contributed to this reporting. The floodwater from last week’s disaster on the Nepal-China border is “really like liquid cement,” CNN’s Anderson Cooper, who is on the ground in Kathmandu, Nepal, has described. “We think of it as this flood that occurred six days ago - of (being like) water. It’s really like liquid cement and just walking on it, you sink into it and it kind of sucks you in,” he told CNN’s Sara Sidner. Speaking about the increased numbers of people reported missing in Nepal in recent days, Cooper said that this was “not completely unexpected.” Some people have not reported their loved ones missing “because they didn’t want to think this person was gone,” and hoped that they would be found, Cooper explained. “As the days have gone by, and we’re now on day six, they file missing person reports, they list this person as missing,” he said. Watch more from the ground in the video above. The number of people killed by the catastrophic flooding in Nepal has risen to 939, the country’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) has said in an update. A previous death toll released earlier today stood at 903. The number of missing people in the country has fallen by more than 300, the figures released by NDRRMA show. Approximately 3,925 people are now missing, down from the 4,247 figure released earlier today, the latest update says. Emergency response teams are working to find survivors of last week’s devastating floods in Nepal, with more than 4,200 people currently missing according to authorities. Countries around the world have pledged their support: India has sent several planes containing supplies to Nepal, according to Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, India’s Foreign Minister. One flight carried 10 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the capital of Kathmandu, including portable generator sets, dignity kits, food packets and water purification tablets, as well as doctors, paramedics and rescue workers, Jaishankar said. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced earlier today that his country will send humanitarian supplies, equipment and personnel to support impacted communities in Nepal. Yesterday, Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong said that Canberra has provided a total $8 million AUD (roughly $5.7 million USD) to Nepal since the flooding began. The European Union is providing €2 million (roughly $2.3 million) in emergency aid for food, healthcare, clean water and sanitation, the European Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management, Hadja Lahbib, announced Friday. The United Arab Emirates has sent 83 tonnes of food supplies and humanitarian essentials to Nepal, the official Emirates News Agency reported. The country’s Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has allocated $10 million to support early recovery efforts, it said. The UK has offered Nepal £5 million (around $6.8 million) to help with response efforts, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said last week. Miliband also offered Nepal search and rescue assistance. The US State Department said last week that it was providing more than $3.6 million worth of humanitarian assistance to Nepal, including emergency food assistance. Canada is providing $5 million CAD (around $3.6 million USD) in humanitarian assistance to support emergency relief efforts, Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand announced last week. China has provided “emergency cash aid and humanitarian assistance” to Nepal, state media Xinhua reported , without providing further details. Sri Lanka has offered Nepal $1 million to support its humanitarian and relief efforts, its foreign ministry said last week. Pope Leo has sent “concrete financial support” to help with relief efforts, Vatican News reported last week , without disclosing how much money was sent to Nepal. Steadily overflowing pools of water in Nepal mean glaciers surrounding an impact crater have the “potential to collapse,” according to Chinese media, just days after deadly torrents killed hundreds of people in the Himalayan region. Small areas of “standing water” situated about 2.5 kilometers (1.55 miles) downstream of a mountainside impact crater formed by a glacial collapse on Wednesday that sparked the floods are all “in a state of overflow,” China’s state broadcaster CCTV reported on Monday, citing the country’s Ministry of Water Resources. On another river in the vicinity, which has been a point of focus due to the formation of a barrier lake there on Wednesday, the ministry noted “multiple landslide barriers” of various sizes overflowing on both sides of the riverbank, CCTV said. “There is a risk that the collapse of the landslide barriers could form a new landslide-dammed lake,” the broadcaster added. Layers of rock and debris can accumulate in the aftermath of a landslide, creating blockages that can form so-called barrier or landslide-dammed lakes. Emergency relief teams in Nepal and China have been battered by heavy rainfall, with new water formations exacerbating the threat of another lethal torrent. Earlier on Sunday, a specialized team near the border raised the alarm over “high-risk geological disaster points,” after lake formations paused time-sensitive rescue operations last week . A Nepali father has recounted to CNN how he he was reunited with his young daughter, who was swept away in last week’s floods. Lok Bahadur Uchai Magar was at home cooking a meal in the small town of Timure when the flood waters hit, destroying his entire kitchen. After barely managing to escape himself, he could not find his five-year-old daughter Manisha. Uchai Magar and his wife feared Manisha may be lost forever, but rescuers miraculously found her trapped in a nearby building 60 hours later. In the short exchange above, he exclusively tells CNN’s Will Ripley what it was like to be reunited after her rescue. Emergency crews tasked with recovering people from tunnels in Rasuwa, Nepal, located “no signs of human presence,” according to the prime minister’s office, after catastrophic floods submerged the winding, underground network. A team of engineers led by the Nepali Army scoped out the Rasuwagadhi Hydropower Project near the Bhote Koshi River, only to find “no one” inside, the office said in a statement on Monday. Staff reached the “innermost section” of the tunnel extending to the end point and flew a drone inside, the statement said. “However, no signs of human presence were found,” it added. A string of hydropower projects lines parts of northern Nepal, the tunnels of which became immersed in dense sediment and morass following the lethal torrents last week. Specialized teams are now leading the search for 933 workers who remain unaccounted for and could be trapped alive in the maze-like network. Nepal is home to thousands of glaciers, which are melting and becoming unstable as the Himalayan region rapidly warms. The country barely contributes to the climate crisis – it accounts for less than 0.1 % of global planet-warming gases – making the disaster a stark reminder of how the countries that contribute the least to the climate crisis are suffering the most harm. Nepal is an emerging climate leader, with a commitment to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2045 – meaning it removes as much planet-heating pollution from the atmosphere as it emits – and a mandate to direct 80% of national climate finance directly to local adaptation efforts. Nepal’s power grid runs on hydropower, with its electricity generation coming from 100% renewable energy sources since 2015. Its electric vehicle market is the second-fastest growing in the world, trailing only Norway, with roughly 70% of new cars sold now EVs. This isn’t the first time Nepal has seen this sort of disaster. A flood caused by a dam failure at a glacial lake hit the Himalayan village of Thame in August 2024, and similar outbursts struck Humla and Rasuwa in 2025. In all, there have been 26 glacial lake outburst flooding events since the late 1970s. The relatives of people missing after the devastating flooding in Nepal have been asked to provide DNA to help identify recovered remains. The parents and children of those unaccounted for have been asked to send their DNA to Nepal Police, alongside information about the missing person, including the time and place they were last seen. People who live outside of Nepal that have missing relatives there have been asked to undergo DNA profiling in their home country and email their results to Nepal Police. Some context: The number of missing people in Nepal has risen to 4,247, including 592 foreign nationals, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority said in its latest update. This is a sharp increase on yesterday, when 2,502 people were reported missing. The Himalayan landmass, where last week’s deadly flooding in Nepal and China took place, rises from shifting fault lines and is sliced by mighty rivers that are fed by glaciers. It’s one of the most ecologically and seismically sensitive regions in the world, but the potential to tame its rivers into major hydropower projects has long enticed engineers.

Chinese advances in dam-building technology in recent years and a race to electrify with clean energy and cut off coal –– as well as a simmering, high-altitude China-India border feud –– have driven change in the region. China’s new megadam project on Tibet’s Yarlung Tsangpo river, which broke ground last July, is one of what researchers say are dozens of hydropower projects across Tibet. The project is expected to generate more electricity than any other in the world, leveraging a 2,000-meter altitude drop by blasting tunnels through a mountain. Meanwhile, India’s largest state-backed hydropower firm is pushing forward its own high-altitude hydropower megaproject –– a 11,200-megawatt dam, downstream from China’s. In recent years, New Delhi has debuted ambitious new tunnels and railways cutting through mountain passes that too could enable Himalayan deployment of military and other resources. Nepal has, meantime, also been increasing hydropower buildout along Himalayan rivers, at times with financing from its two larger neighbors as they compete for influence. Experts say the realities of construction –– blasting through rock with dynamite, pouring concrete into natural landforms and storing water in reservoirs –– could have unintended effects. Landslides, debris flows and glacial lake outburst floods are all features of the area that are becoming more unpredictable with climate change. They also have the potential to put people nearby at risk or damage infrastructure if a project can’t cope. As emergency workers continue to search for thousands of people who are unaccounted for following last week’s floods in Nepal and China, the families of those killed in the catastrophe are burying their loved ones. Here are some of the latest images from the ground: The number of people confirmed killed after propulsive landslides tore through the Nepal-China border on Wednesday now exceeds 900. Officials in both nations have supercharged relief efforts in the Himalayan region — where rapidly warming conditions worsened by multiple factors, including the human-caused climate crisis have elevated the risk of glacier collapses and made life for local communities even more unpredictable. Here’s what you need to know: Missing number spikes: The number of missing people in Nepal rose to 4,247, including 592 foreign nationals, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority said in its latest update. This is a sharp increase on yesterday, when 2,502 people were reported to be unaccounted for. Death toll climbs : The death toll has reached 903, Nepal’s disaster authority said today, from 788 previously recorded. The death toll in China was 16 as of Sunday. Specialized response efforts: Nepal’s government has ramped up emergency personnel by about 20,000 staffers, a Nepali lawmaker told CNN. Officials are starting to streamline teams for specific response needs – including hundreds of people who may be trapped in labyrinthine hydroelectric power plant tunnels . Rebuilding key infrastructure: In China, rescue teams could be seen shovelling water thick with sediment along a national highway that leads to a rural border town linking China and Nepal, in footage published by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV . Geological “disaster points”: Chinese analysts identified eight “high-risk geological disaster points” near Gyirong Port, which runs through the border with Nepal, as heavy rainfall and waterlogged areas compound the risk of secondary landslides. Rescue crews and foreign specialists are racing to find scores of workers feared trapped alive inside hydropower tunnels in Nepal, after thick mud buried the facilities during last week’s devastating flash floods. At least 933 workers are missing at various hydropower projects that run along the Trishuli river, which winds through multiple districts in the remote and mountainous area, according to the country’s disaster agency. It’s not clear how many of those workers were inside the deep and heavily reinforced tunnels when the water hit. It’s also unclear how many of them may be still alive, with search and rescue efforts complicated by poor weather, mud, and the loss of critical infrastructure like roads and bridges. Nepal and its superpower neighbors, China and India, have invested heavily in hydropower projects across the Himalayas in recent years, hoping to harness the vast energy potential of its raging rivers. Read about what we know so far. Latest drone footage from CCTV shows rescue workers using lifting equipment in an attempt to restore and rebuild a road by the turbulent currents and in between the towering mountains. They are repairing the national highway No. 216, the main road leading to the Gyirong, the remote border town connecting China and Nepal severely devastated in last week’s catastrophic flood. “This terrain is particularly challenging and with so many bends, the access for the repair crew and building vehicles are very limited,” said the CCTV reporter. Till this morning, the crew has advanced 533 meters, leaving 1.15 kilometers (0.71 miles) to Gyirong port. A scientist in Nepal who studies melting glaciers is now confronting tragedy triggered by the climate phenomenon. Arbindra Khadka, a glaciologist and research scientist at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, told CNN on Monday his brother is missing after last week’s catastrophic floods along the Nepal-China border. “It’s very devastating. We tried our best to figure out what happened with our brother, along with other people. And the only one hope left is he’s still inside the tunnel and he’s alive. But outside, we could not find him. He’s still missing,” Khadka told CNN’s Polo Sandoval. Rescuers in Nepal are scrambling to search for hundreds of workers believed to be trapped in the tunnels of hydropower projects . The flash floods engulfed the Nepal-China border region last week after a large portion of a glacier broke , triggering an avalanche and landslide. Khadka explained that glaciers are warming more rapidly, raising the risk of disaster. “In the summer monsoon, the lower part (of the glacier) is melting very fast” and it destabilizes the ice, he said. “And secondary thing there is the permafrost thaw… the top layer of the frozen ground is melting during the summer.” Six days since the devastating flash floods at its border with China, Nepali emergency response teams “have not given up hope of finding more survivors” in face of the perilous challenge against the tough terrain, a member of parliament told CNN on Monday. “We’re still very much in that search and rescue mode,” said Sumnima Udas, who is also a former CNN international correspondent. “But the terrain is incredibly challenging, particularly in Rasuwa area, which is the ground zero… which remains completely cut off.” “Helicopters have to literally queue up to go in one by one… because it’s full of very narrow ridges and gorges,” she explained. “The land has also become very swamp-like, so heavy equipment cannot reach many of these areas.” Many areas in hard-hit Nuwakot and Rasuwa districts have become inaccessible under the deluge of debris, said David Fisher, who heads the Nepal delegation for the International Federation of the Red Cross. “Only yesterday, a road opened up, but it’s a very difficult road. It can’t take trucks. It takes 14 hours for something that would usually take two, but at least there’s an opening,” he told CNN on Monday. The Nepali government has increased its manpower for rescue operations, with around 20,000 personnel, while teams from China, South Korea and India have arrived to help, Udas said. Nepali authorities are prioritizing getting hundreds of people who may be trapped in hydroelectric power station tunnels. “There is just an enormous amount of debris, mud, silt inside these tunnels. So they’re having to blast through some of these tunnels further downstream. Dozens of teams are working on identifying and recovering the bodies,” she said. China Meteorological Administration said on Monday that more rain is expected in Gyirong and warned of slippery surfaces along the routes leading to the disaster-hit port. Temperature could also drop to as low as 46 degrees Fahrenheit. There could be a large difference in temperature between day and night and it could feel damp and chilly, according to the report. Moderate to heavy rain may fall in southeastern Tibet. Continued rainfall may also cause a rise in water levels in the barrier lake formed from an initial landslide in the disaster, according to the report. China has previously paused rescue operations over fears of a secondary disaster triggered by overflowing lake water. At least 12 people in China were taken to task after they were accused of spreading false information online about last week’s catastrophic flooding along its border with Nepal, according to Chinese authorities. The latest “cyberspace cleanup” campaign launched by China’s Public Security Ministry targeted people who “fabricated and spread false information on the disaster to mislead the public,” according to a notice it published on Monday. According to the notice, 10 people received administrative penalties. The notice also listed examples of what it said was the false information from them — they mainly comprised speculation and claims about the officially-reported numbers of dead and missing at the disaster-hit Gyirong Port in Tibet. One such claim cited as an example in the notice claimed a far higher number of dead and missing that the official tolls released so far. In the latest update on Sunday, Chinese authorities reported that 16 have been killed so far and 546 are missing. In a separate statement on Monday, police from Shannan, a city in southeast Tibet, said two people were summoned after they allegedly spread false information online about the casualty numbers. The two have since deleted the posts containing the false information, Shannan police said. It’s not clear what information the posts contained. Countries around the world often face a deluge of misinformation in the aftermath of natural disasters, which can hamper rescue efforts and fan public anger. China maintains strict controls on online content at all times but censorship is often ramped up after major natural disasters. Authorities have removed footage showing flood waters hitting an administrative building in Gyirong Port. Hotlines for families of flood victims were only made available on Sunday, days after the disaster. Chinese state media coverage has focused on the ongoing rescue operations, including regular updates on progress made in reaching incredibly remote places. A South Korean site manager at the hydropower plant along the Nepal-China border is reeling from the flood catastrophe that left workers stranded. The manager, who was not named, was inside a tunnel when disaster struck, CNN affiliate JTBC reported. By the time he came out of the tunnel, there was water everywhere and he could not even see the office building. “There are still workers we cannot reach, so I am still left with nothing but a heavy, sorrowful, and grief-filled heart,” JTBC reported the manager, who works for Doosan Enerbility Co , as saying on Sunday. He was one of 10 South Koreans rescued in the aftermath of the floods. South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said nine of its citizens who were working on a hydropower plant are missing while 10 others have been rescued. “I don’t have any thoughts right now. I’m only focused on supporting the search efforts as much as I can, within my knowledge,” the manager told public broadcaster Yonhap. South Korea’s government response team is in Nepal for search and rescue operations for the missing Koreans. 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