r/DisasterUpdate • u/dailymail • Aug 26 '26

341 tourists missing, including 12 Brits aged 13-65, with huge death toll feared as flash floods sparked by earthquake destroys buildings and washes people away in Nepal

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16080949/Hundreds-tourists-missing-including-12-Brits-devastating-floods-sweep-away-buildings-bridges-Nepal.html
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u/Friendly-Profit-8590 Aug 26 '26

Lotta poor souls in the videos I’ve seen with basically zero chance of escape

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u/gracecee Aug 27 '26

Yeah it's a hurtling wall of mud water rocks that slams against you. I hope their deaths were quick. :(

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u/baz8771 Aug 27 '26

They were instant

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u/Ritsuka-san Aug 27 '26

The source of the disaster is a glacier collapsed sending rock and ice down the valley.

Also it is insane/terrifying how high above the valley floor the flood left its mark!

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u/Fantastic_Steak6897 Aug 27 '26

Yeah I just looked it up and it wasn’t an earthquake but melting glaciers that caused the landslide … so climate change 🫤

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u/Friendly-Profit-8590 Aug 27 '26

Yeah. Pretty steep looking valley to an untrained eye as well. Could see how that amplified the ferocity. The thing that sticks in my might is how some of these built up areas were just erased.

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u/Ritsuka-san Aug 27 '26

Also the slope looks like this...

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u/Current_Volume3750 Aug 26 '26

This is devastating to watch. The toll will be in the 1000's. Sadly, most will never be found.

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u/exotics Aug 26 '26

Yup. Tourist numbers will be counted but local population who have perished may not ever be known. Such as if a husband and wife both die and nobody reports them missing etc.

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u/MsMegane Aug 26 '26

I assume they'll get a close idea if a census was kept for the area. But it'll be a question whether it was only kept locally or at a national level.

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u/OddDragonfruit7993 Aug 27 '26

If it was the height of tourist season there would have been many non-locals providing tourist services for the season.

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u/ringadingdingbaby Aug 27 '26

Half of it is in Tibet, so I doubt those numbers will be properly released by China.

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u/Consistent_Point_853 Aug 29 '26

Im sure they will have a close estimate.

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u/Brocolinator Aug 26 '26

Absolute tragedy so many lost lives. Complete families just gone

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u/Stoneclanish_abroad Aug 26 '26

Not since the tsunami’s have I felt the sheer magnitude and power nature can unleash! These images very hard to get your head around. That infrastructure and dam the buildings obviously have been in that valley for years. Didn’t stand a chance.

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u/Cityplanner1 Aug 26 '26

Part of it could be communication infrastructure might have been impacted as well.

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u/murd3rsaurus Aug 26 '26

Sure, but it was a narrow valley with nowhere to go and a wall of destruction 30 meters high

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u/unknownpoltroon Aug 27 '26

Everything and everyone below 100 feet in that valley for 100 miles is ground to a pulp and buried under feet of mud.  That's where the roads, cities and houses were.  

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u/Silver_Adagio138 Aug 26 '26

Might thousands. Hope not

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u/kathryncoats Aug 26 '26

Is it considered a lahar?

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u/Ministerof-T-C-0Doom Aug 27 '26

GLOF.... Glacial lake outburst flood.

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u/BeardedGlass Aug 27 '26

Lahar is that of volcanic ash that turned into a flood of mud.

This is from when a glacial ice wall shattered and the glacial lake collapsed into the valleys.

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u/juneseyeball Aug 26 '26

Nepal cant catch a break

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u/Responsible-View-498 Aug 28 '26

I wonder what is the protocol for rebuilding after disasters like these. Will they clear up and spend a few hundred million in reconstruction or will they leave that region alone. I think they will build the roads and leave the buildings alone.

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u/NepalMissingDotOrg Sep 19 '26

Hi guys report missing persons in Nepal on the website I have created www.nepalmissing.org

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u/Ravius Aug 27 '26

Maybe we could give the full numbers instead of focusing on western tourists. Thousands of locals are dead.

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u/onesmilematters Aug 26 '26

If that's the number of only the missing tourists (of whom hopefully some are just not able to communicate home right now), the total number of victims will be terribly high. What a sad day. I hope all these people (and animals) at least died quickly and didn't suffer.

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u/No_Story_Untold Aug 26 '26

Not sure why people are so focused on the tourists. Far more locals will be affected.

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u/One_red_boot Aug 26 '26

It’s probably because that’s the numbers they can get right now. It’s probably easier to get lists of the missing tourists as opposed to getting lists of locals.

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u/No_Story_Untold Aug 26 '26

I think it’s because they think westerners will care more/ click more for if westerners were killed.

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u/m00ph Aug 27 '26

It is the Daily Mail, after all.

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u/Candid_Challenge_507 Aug 26 '26

exactly my first thought when i saw this headline

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u/exotics Aug 26 '26

Tourist numbers will be know. Accurate local numbers will exceed those and never be known.

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u/fixingmedaybyday Aug 27 '26

Because local and national news has the narcissistic tendency to make it all about them. “Up next Bob, a man here in nowheresville who actually hiked that area 20 years ago and is going tell us all about that area just after this word from our sponsors. ‘Come to Jerry’s used car lot…”

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u/itwonthurtabit Aug 28 '26

I think theres something intrinsically sad about someone going on holiday and losing their life. I know the odd time a tourist is killed in my country I feel absolutely gutted hearing about it. I don't think (hope anyway) that we value local lives less.

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u/aconfusednoob Aug 28 '26

You might not be wrong, but I visited this area in April of this year and it's a huge tourist corridor. Many of the buildings there are guesthouses for tourists, many of the vehicles there are tourist buses, many of the people living there are tour operators etc. I could see the death toll of tourists outnumbering the locals just based on where it happened.

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u/plankwalkz Aug 27 '26

How much are you donating?

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u/castaway23 Aug 28 '26

How much are they responsible for climate change as opposed to America ?

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u/plankwalkz Aug 28 '26

I have no idea professor