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Aug
Kathmandu (Gurpreet Singh)— The death toll from devastating flash floods in central Nepal reached 669 on Saturday as emergency crews continued recovering bodies amid renewed rainfall, swelling river levels, and the persistent threat of secondary flooding across the Bhotekoshi River basin. Nearly 2,400 people remain unaccounted for, including at least 320 foreign nationals, while more than 4,400 individuals have been rescued or evacuated as rescue teams struggle against time and rugged terrain to access cut-off mountain settlements. The catastrophe, triggered on Wednesday by a massive glacial rock-and-ice avalanche near the Nepal-Tibet border, sent a devastating wall of water, mud, and…
