{"id":411,"date":"2026-09-03T16:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=411"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:01:22","slug":"nepal-floods-death-toll-climbs-to-1252-as-rescue-efforts-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"Nepal floods death toll climbs to 1,252 as rescue efforts continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-09-03\/Getty_Nepalfloodingaftermath_090326.jpg\" alt><figcaption>An aerial view of houses surrounded by mud, rocks and debris following flash floods on Sept. 3, 2026, in Betravati village, Rasuwa, Nepal. (Ritesh Shukla\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(LONDON) &#8212; The death toll following an unprecedented flash flood at the Nepal-Tibet border has climbed to 1,252, with an additional 4,216 people believed to still be missing,\u00a0officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">These figures have increased from 1,114 and 3,916, respectively,\u00a0a day earlier, according to the Nepali Government\u2019s National Disaster Management Authority\u2019s\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">latest update<\/span>, as of Thursday at noon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Chinese state media have reported an additional death toll of 16, and 546 missing persons in Tibet, bringing the total death toll to 1,268, with 4,762 missing on both sides of the border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Relief and rescue efforts are continuing, with almost all communication towers restored and nearly 12,000 people rescued thanks to international and domestic aid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Additionally,\u00a0almost 21,500 security personnel have been mobilized in attempts to speed up the search and rescue operations, with over 5,000 people receiving treatment for injuries, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Nepali Prime Minister Shah\u00a0said earlier this week his\u00a0government\u00a0would begin\u00a0focusing on\u00a0&#8220;rehabilitation&#8221;\u00a0as the length of time since the initial disaster grows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The flooding, caused by part of a glacier failing, has revived conversations about anthropogenic climate change. The World Meteorological Organisation<span class=\"s2\">\u00a0<\/span>forecast on Thursday a\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">&#8220;very strong&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0El Nino,\u00a0which raises the risk of extreme weather.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An aerial view of houses surrounded by mud, rocks and debris following flash floods on Sept. 3, 2026, in Betravati village, Rasuwa, Nepal. (Ritesh Shukla\/Getty Images) (LONDON) &#8212; The death toll following an unprecedented flash flood at the Nepal-Tibet border has climbed to 1,252, with an additional 4,216 people believed to still be missing,\u00a0officials said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}