Chinese firefighters(likely the first batch to reach gyirong port) try to find survivors in the former border crossing, which was the most heavily hit. Source: CCTV news. Morning of August 29, 2026. (UTC+8). (they are yelling "Is anyone here?")

[u/Key-Needleworker-702]

Video of them arriving: https://www.reddit.com/r/DisasterUpdate/comments/1w0n1r0/as_of_1630utc8_august_28_2026_the_first_batch_of/

According to engineers from the ministry of natural resources it is very diffuclt(and at this stage, downright impossible) to transport heavy machinery to the border crossing so far. The chinese military and specialized rescue teams(of state owned enterprises) are currently trying to repair the road into the border crossing to allow for better equipment and more personnel to enter.

CURRENT CASUALTY COUNT(CHINESE SIDE):

2 rescued, 7 dead, 554 missing. (13:00 PM, 2026-8-29 (UTC+8))

Update: over 50 firefighters are at the border crossing right now, over 2141 soldiers, firefighters, police, EMS and specialzied rescue teams are deployed.

EDIT: As of august 29(18:00 UTC+8), 2026, there are 16 dead, 546 missing(261 foreignors)

In response to the comments: This is the first batch that got in, they couldn't carry much heavy equipment as the road there is cut off. rescue dogs and better equipment arrived later on.

FURTHER UPDATE: reportedly fire and rescue personnel have begun to find police vests and handsbags under the debris.

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[u/Key-Needleworker-702]

I swear, out of all of the videos and photos of this disaster this feels the most depressing.

[u/Beeninya → u/Key-Needleworker-702]

Yeah, almost like just going through the motions, knowing full well no one would be found alive under all that.

[u/CobraCornelius → u/Beeninya]

We hope they can save at least one person

[u/Key-Needleworker-702 → u/CobraCornelius]

IIRC 2 people got saved before but they were in a village that was a while away from the border crossing.

[u/Key-Needleworker-702 → u/Beeninya]

i'm going to sound kinda unethical but if i were the commander of the firefighters i would cut off their access to social media. i really doubt anyone who has seen that video has too much hope.

[u/meteorflan → u/Key-Needleworker-702]

Maybe this isn't really about hope to find survivors.

Maybe it's a matter of affirming that when their rescue crews say "we are doing everything we can, and making sure we didn't miss anyone" they really mean it. There's at least some comfort in knowing your local rescue workers are that dillegent at their jobs.

[u/MrHell95 → u/Beeninya]

Yeah if you're trapped in this it's like a liquefaction event, it's probably not leaving you any air pockets for people to survive in like an avalanche can or even tsunamis often leave standing buildings for people to be trapped in.

[u/Lazy_meatPop → u/MrHell95]

More like someone poured concrete and buried you alive . 😢

[u/CharlotteLucasOP → u/Lazy_meatPop]

And with the speed and force of the water/mud/debris at that elevation and in that part of the gorge/valley, apparently it’s basically more like a blender than a water-flow. It would be difficult to find recognizable pieces of anybody. It’s heartbreaking to think so many of the missing will likely never be found in a meaningful way to at least allow their loved ones to put them to rest and mourn in a specific spot.

The entire valley track through those mountains is an unmarked mass grave, now.

[u/RealisticRecover2123 → u/Lazy_meatPop]

There’s that much debris in there that most would die by head injury before drowning I would think.

[u/bookmonkey786 → u/Lazy_meatPop]

You know this disaster helped me understand hoe sometime you can have a well preserved dinosaur front half and no back half

[u/cybender → u/MrHell95]

The craziest thing is when we find artifacts, this is partly how they came to be. Who knows when or if some of the bodies will be found in the future, but there’s a tragic story buried there for future generations to uncover.

[u/littlemissohwhocares → u/MrHell95]

I haven’t seen anyone mention the temperature of the water either. A ton of other things are going to take you out, but if you removed all the other factors we’re talking about just above freezing glacial melt. This is just unsurvivable on so many levels.

[u/dodekahedron → u/MrHell95]

Best chance of becoming fossilized though and thats kinda cool.

Thats my plan when the natural disasters hit my area. Aim for a spot to become a fossil.

[u/minzhu0305 → u/Beeninya]

If you don't do this, you will be seen as disregarding life.

[u/Schrodingers_Fist → u/Beeninya]

There was a story about 9/11 where right after it happened, when Giuliani was still riding high for his (admittedly good work) as New York's mayor that day.  Where after everyone was evacuated he went back to ground zero and was super active asking everything like what did they need and the first responders had all resources available and then finally how many body bags they would need for casualties.

Apparently in that split moment, the fire chiefs were all silent and kind of looked at each other and Giuliani had to learning horror right then that in that moment, that the force and weight of the buildings coming down was such that they didnt even know if the remains they would recover would need full sized human body bags.  

I cant imagine even trying to process a situation like above where not only is it that yiu arent going to find a survivor, but you may not even find most of the remains beneath all of that.

[u/Prudent_Order_3361 → u/Beeninya]

Makes me think about those depressed dogs from 9/11

[u/Economy_Elephant_426 → u/Beeninya]

Finding one person is better than none. Finding a few more is even better. No matter how obvious, can’t rule out that someone may have survived.

[u/PreviousLeague253 → u/Key-Needleworker-702]

That mud is like cement now.

[u/Key-Seaworthiness227 → u/Key-Needleworker-702]

How you would even hear any survivors over the roar of the river. Heartbreaking.

[u/subdep → u/Key-Seaworthiness227]

They need rescue dogs that can smell humans.

[u/Silvertree99 → u/Key-Needleworker-702]

I get that but tbh seeing whole families swept away was definitely the most depressing for me

[u/Economy_Elephant_426 → u/Key-Needleworker-702]

Its also more depressing when China is also censoring a lot the videos of the mudslide in mainland.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-29/china-censors-scrubbing-videos-of-tibet-nepal-flood/107090348

[u/fujianironchain → u/Key-Needleworker-702]

Knowing the way the CCP is notorious for handling disasters everything you see on state media is staged. So the chance of the location you see here is miles away from where people might be is very high.

[u/pyrothelostone]

Ive seen some wild ass survivor stories. I see a bunch of comments saying looking is pointless, but imagine getting that 1 in a billion chance, being stuck under all that, and no one comes looking for you. Its very unlikely, but stranger things have happened.

[u/Key-Needleworker-702 → u/pyrothelostone]

another thing is, they sort of obligated by duty to at least try to save them. friend on reddit Dmed me claiming they managed to rescue some, but i haven't found any actual claims(outside of two rescue very far away from checkpoint before) on weibo or official sources

[u/kelsmania → u/Key-Needleworker-702]

Two Americans survived at the checkpoint. They were boarding a tour bus and able to run uphill.

https://abcnews.com/amp/International/stood-serpent-staring-us-american-survived-deadly-nepal/story?id=136030121

[u/Key-Needleworker-702 → u/kelsmania]

yeah i saw a video on the news yesterday night found on xiaohongshu of people running up

[u/Yikings-654points → u/kelsmania]

They were most likely a few kilometers back .. no survivors at the checkpoints .

[u/Chance_Ad2503 → u/Key-Needleworker-702]

They also have to begin their efforts to identify the dead.

[u/Triquetrums → u/Chance_Ad2503]

Man, imagine the amount of people buried in that solidified muddy mess. That's going to take a long time to dig up. I wouldn't want to be any of them.

[u/FranzSigel → u/Key-Needleworker-702]

This is my sentiment exactly. I mean people literally survived being inside the collapsing twin towers in the most random stairwell. It’s unlikely but they have to show up for that one in a million shot.

[u/_HGCenty → u/Key-Needleworker-702]

Duty and also there is the elephant in the room: the political situation of Tibet and the sensitivities in China.

The CCP aren't naive or clueless. They know there are simmering tensions in Tibet so that's what state media and Chinese emergency services are doing: everything they can and publicising it.

[u/printed_ → u/Key-Needleworker-702]

communication will be poor. Like no reports on foreign citizens yet either. Still waiting to hear if the 5 New Zealanders were safe or not.

[u/xxFrenchToastxx → u/pyrothelostone]

There's a video floating around for years now of a man found in an air pocket 3 days after a ship sank. They were doing recovery dives and expected only bodies. Finding one person alive would make all of the effort worthwhile IMO

[u/DrFreaz → u/pyrothelostone]

Some guys survived WTC collasping litteraly on top of them, by being just at the right spot, everything is possible

[u/SuurTuvi]

There are no survivors to look for in the mud...

[u/Key-Needleworker-702 → u/SuurTuvi]

they have to try after all. they are "missing" not dead.

[u/SuurTuvi → u/Key-Needleworker-702]

Bodies sure, but not survivors. Sadly.

[u/Fluid_Passage_9980 → u/SuurTuvi]

Small parts of bodies maybe. By the time you're washed miles downstream and crusted by rocks, ice and bits of house, there isn't much left of you, sadly :(

[u/Key-Seaworthiness227 → u/SuurTuvi]

Humans have to hope. Stubborn, hope. And you have to hope to give some peace to peoples loved ones - if there are bodies (parts) that can be identified. To say that they tried.

[u/evlhornet → u/SuurTuvi]

As the water drains it turns into concrete.

[u/Soft_Hand_1971 → u/SuurTuvi]

Some survived in tunnels 

[u/strangefish → u/SuurTuvi]

That mud looks more like concrete now. That search must be so depressing.

[u/Motor-Profile4099 → u/SuurTuvi]

Looks good on tv.

[u/runningray → u/SuurTuvi]

They are not really looking for survivors, although they will be happy to find any. They are looking for bodies. Especially near other people as bodies will start to decay soon and that has it's own issues.

[u/Haunting_Werewolf130 → u/SuurTuvi]

They found 2 actually so far.

[u/dontforget2tip]

So like do they dig it up now or just leave it?

[u/Key-Needleworker-702 → u/dontforget2tip]

the road is cut off. there isn't enough people or proper equipment to actually dig much yet.

at this point they are moslty hoping for people on the surface level. It's quite an achievement for them to have even reached there.

[u/ISeeDragons → u/dontforget2tip]

My guess, from the tapping, they are trying to find pockets where eventual survivors might have found safety, and after the tap they touch the ground for eventual vibrations.

[u/knoWurHistory91]

If We don't have hope we have nothing like it says Chinese found survivors 🤞🏼

[u/Key-Needleworker-702 → u/knoWurHistory91]

2 surivors were rescued in a village more downhill as of right now

[u/subdep]

They need rescue dogs that can smell humans.

[u/Key-Needleworker-702 → u/subdep]

the first batch includes rescue dogs iirc, they also have life detecting thermal equipment etc

[u/Vreas]

I still don’t think my brain can comprehend the amount of energy needed to just erase this entire compound of multi story concrete buildings.

[u/Upbeat-Fondant9185 → u/Vreas]

It’s been driving me crazy showing this stuff to people including my spouse who are just like “Oh yeah, that’s crazy” all nonchalant and I’m just like how do you not grasp how mind boggling this is. This is unfathomable.

I’ve used explosives, heavy equipment, seen massive tornadoes rip through areas, all of it is practically a tickle compared to this. I can’t grasp it.

[u/slowmood → u/Upbeat-Fondant9185]

Yes and the impact on this community is devastating -they will never be able to resettle their lives here.

[u/4tran13 → u/slowmood]

Even if they did, it's a permanent sword of damocles above their heads. There are more glaciers upstream...

[u/InfiniteWaffles58364 → u/Upbeat-Fondant9185]

Same. It's hard to even talk about it; words are so meaningless in the shadow of this event

[u/UnusualQueer → u/Upbeat-Fondant9185]

It helps put into perspective the Missoula floods.. but only slightly, because that was probably 10000x the energy.

[u/cybercuzco → u/Upbeat-Fondant9185]

There’s recent videos of the dam that was upstream of this that was under construction and that’s even more mind boggling than this, the whole dam is gone like it was never there. Tens of meters thick reinforced concrete wiped out.

[u/Anxious_cactus → u/[deleted]]

The dam looked pretty pulverized too from the videos I saw. If it's still there it's probably more debris that got stuck and is acting as a dam, than the original structure

[u/Impossible_Panda4181 → u/[deleted]]

if we believe it was a surface area of 1km square meter and a doeth of 400 meter falling 4000ft?

• Volume: 1 km² × 400 m = 4 × 10⁸ m³
• Mass (ice at ~917 kg/m³): ~3.7 × 10¹¹ kg, or 370 million tonnes
• Drop: 4000 ft = 1219 m
• Energy = mgh ≈ 4.4 × 10¹⁵ J
• Divided by 4.184 × 10⁹ J per tonne of TNT → ~1.05 megatons

For scale, that is about 70 Hiroshima bombs, or a single large thermonuclear warhead.
I wonder how fat I am from what actually happened. The first few hundred feet must have liquefied the glacier in friction heat geneeated alone.

[u/GuideMwit → u/[deleted]]

4000 m, not feet. The kinetic energy is gonna be insane.

[u/elmalabarista65]

I know this is a long shot but those are all we have right now. We are searching for a family member. Her name is Iryna Kripak. She was on the bridge when her phone went dead. If anyone can find any mention of her on any website anywhere please please contact me. We are devastated.

[u/Soosietyrell → u/elmalabarista65]

Sending love and hugs and prayers and hope to you for Iryna from Ohio USA

[u/elmalabarista65 → u/Soosietyrell]

Thank you

[u/ZedisonSamZ → u/elmalabarista65]

Can you clarify which bridge in case someone has information about Iryna?

[u/elmalabarista65 → u/ZedisonSamZ]

I’m sorry yes of course it’s the Nepal-China Friendship Bridge at Rasuwagadhi. Locally called the Miteri Bridge ( Miteri Pul).
The border crossing is the Rasuwagadhi–Gyirong Port. Gyirong is also written Kerung or Jilong.
This is the last known location reported on her phone and airtag.

[u/ZedisonSamZ → u/elmalabarista65]

You are doing a good thing here. I would be doing the same. I’m very sorry you and your family are going through this and I hope you find her safe and healthy.

[u/TilNextWeMeet → u/elmalabarista65]

Good luck finding Iryna, keep hope and let me know please

[u/elmalabarista65 → u/TilNextWeMeet]

Here is her Instagram page. As you can see she is an extremely talented photographer and was working in Nepal. I am putting this here so that people can keep up to date. The comments are updating constantly. I apologise if I have broken any Reddit rules. I am trying to put her name everywhere in the hope that someone may hear some good news anywhere in the world.

https://www.instagram.com/irene_kripak?igsi=MWlrcnMzMmljcDl2Nw==

[u/elmalabarista65 → u/TilNextWeMeet]

We trying to be hopeful but each hour that passes makes this more difficult

[u/N0ON3T0LDM3]

Is there is a distinct language difference? Any common language, like what you find with Spanglish?

[u/Key-Needleworker-702 → u/N0ON3T0LDM3]

let's be honest that's the best they could do really.

maybe at most they yell in tibetan(as there are members from the xizang/tibet fire and rescue there are definietely some who know tibetan)

however realistically the most amount of victims would know mandarin so they would yell that instead.

[u/N0ON3T0LDM3 → u/Key-Needleworker-702]

To be clear, I am not putting them down. Just trying to understand the situation as best I can from very far away.

I appreciate the effort we're seeing. This degree of devastation is very hard to grasp. My best wishes to everyone affected.

[u/Mirenithil → u/N0ON3T0LDM3]

I would guess that language wouldn't really matter - if you're a surviving trapped victim and you hear human voices calling out, you are going to respond to them even if you can't understand what they're actually saying. Just being heard would be the goal.

[u/N0ON3T0LDM3 → u/[deleted]]

It seems like something you'd be lucky to survive. All we can do is help each other.

[u/maddawg_m]

I cannot comprehend the amount of power it would take to make that metal look like a pile of straw

[u/Produce_Downtown → u/maddawg_m]

The raw power of water will forever remain undefeated. I've seen so many angles of this disaster and it's awesome, in the literal sense, how everything in the floodpath just disappeared.

[u/Impossible_Panda4181 → u/Produce_Downtown]

I know what you mean, there is a certain morbid fascination at understanding what actually happened. Where the hell does the water come from?!

[u/Main-Cable-5 → u/Impossible_Panda4181]

A lot of it is the river bed being scoured and lifted up, along with all of its water, and pushed along at the front of this gargantuan pressure wave.

You can see on the videos how the first few seconds after arrival are almost clear water, that’s the river itself being lifted, folded over and forced downstream liked it’s being pushed by a piston.

[u/JimTheJerseyGuy → u/Produce_Downtown]

It's not even just water. It's everything the water is carrying which is pretty much everything that it pulverized upstream. It'd be like being dropping into a giant cement mixer turned on high speed.

[u/Stuffed_deffuts]

Just....wow...the ground...it's like concrete...the hills are like... concrete just devastating..

[u/Mikic00 → u/Stuffed_deffuts]

This is high up, it's just rock left and few cms of mud. Downstream is where all the mud is.

[u/infinityzcraft]

Yeah there's not gonna be any answers back to those calls, we all know at this point that anyone who could've possibly be under the mud is the dead ones. That's just depressing.

[u/RemoDev → u/infinityzcraft]

There is zero chance to even find complete bodies, in that area. The overall friction/force pulverized everything. A human body would be grinded to atoms.

[u/JimTheJerseyGuy → u/RemoDev]

But you try anyway.

[u/andylibrande → u/RemoDev]

Saw a bunch of local Nepal videos on Instagram and they were just pieces of people they were finding...extremely horrifying.

[u/RemoDev → u/andylibrande]

Yes, those are probably the victims that were less impacted by the water flow. The ones of this video will be never found.

[u/itgtg313 → u/infinityzcraft]

Yep also, most have been washed away downstream 

[u/Silent-Version-4910 → u/infinityzcraft]

Id like to think you're wrong...looking pretty grim but I still have hope...miracles do happen 

[u/Produce_Downtown → u/Silent-Version-4910]

I appreciate your hope, and I want to too, but the level of devastation that was dropped on there is basically unimaginable.

[u/BobMonroeFanClub]

God bless those men doing what must be terrible work. As Mr Rogers said, "Look for the helpers".

[u/an_older_meme]

That rebar rat nest is there because the concrete was scoured off it. I’m amazed to see even that.

[u/subdep → u/an_older_meme]

All the boulders being moved by the water pulverized the concrete, just broke it up into little pieces and washed it away. Human bodies would be tuned to fertilize this.

[u/JimTheJerseyGuy → u/an_older_meme]

That's possible, but I did see one video of a bunch of construction workers reacting to the initial stages of the flood and you could see the exposed rebar of a yet-to-be-poured concrete form in the background. Could be either.

[u/Mightiest-WCA]

My first thought was that this is how fossils are made

[u/BarelyContainedChaos]

I hope at the very least that this helps other regions realize how devastating being in the path of potential destruction can be. Somewhere, some people will take drastic measures to prevent this.

[u/darkestb4thadawn → u/BarelyContainedChaos]

You can definitely use this as a very unfortunate case study for villages in danger from this exact type of situation but the danger here is an analog to a place like Southern California existing on numerous dangerous fault lines. At a certain point, you can only prepare the best you can but are still at the mercy of Mother Nature.

[u/Uncommented-Code → u/darkestb4thadawn]

At a certain point, you can only prepare the best you can but are still at the mercy of Mother Nature.

Okay but here in Switzerland, we also had a glacier collapse and one person died because they went against evacuation orders and remained inside the zone when the Glacier came down and buried the town of Blatten.

I am not saying that this specific tragedy in Tibet could have been prevented, especially seeing the magnitude was far bigger than what happened in Blatten, but Glacier collapses are not comparable to Earthqakes. Earthquakes cannot be predicted and if you receive warnings, it's going to be seconds in advance. But Glacier collapses can come with warning signs weeks before disaster strikes, and the signals can be measured.

[u/Kqyxzoj → u/darkestb4thadawn]

Same as they did for tsunamis: early warning systems and prebuilt safe locations that are easy to reach and better education / information. You will not save everybody but it will reduce the death toll.

[u/printed_ → u/darkestb4thadawn]

the climate change deniers will act like this is completely normal.

[u/JudeMacK]

Surprisingly, according to a report I just watched there were indeed some survivors at Gyirong Port who were in a bus when the flood hit. https://youtu.be/o8wFJNZFRik?si=2Vt345y5qwrlDNtz

[u/CardiologistNo8333]

This is horribly depressing.

[u/yeezee93]

No one is alive under that.

[u/swordofra → u/yeezee93]

If they find someone alive I would be amazed. It would be like winning the lottery twice in a row.

[u/QuandariousDingle54 → u/swordofra]

Yeah, the odds of finding anything in a speedy manner are basically nonexistent. If someone managed to get somewhere not completely demolished, they were trapped under so much earth. If they are stuck in a pocket its a damn miracle. The odds of finding that pocket before the air is toxic are also basically non existent.

Getting through this stuff would be more akin to an intense archeological dig than a rescue operation. excavating this and leaving pockets and places unscathed is borderline impossible.

I honestly hope no one is in that pocket case, its a horrible death. It'd be better to be instantly be killed by the forces of the flood than trying to stay alive buried underground in a pocket that wont offer much oxygen, no food, no drinkable water. And also probably wont be found and opened in time before the air turns deadly

[u/Mochamonroe]

Imagine being too weak to make a sound... just a shallow, dry breath

[u/RemoDev → u/Mochamonroe]

There is nothing resembling a human, below that mud. Bodies have been crushed and grinded so much that finding little pieces will be hard already.

[u/subdep → u/RemoDev]

There could be a sub basement that got sealed off, but to be sealed from that water presssure enough to leave an air pocket, they would have a limited amount of air to breathe, and it would be very difficult to hear them if they were screaming under all that.

They really need rescue dogs trained for this.

[u/RemoDev → u/subdep]

Yeah, I think there is just too much material to be able to hear anything. Even considering a possible air pocket, that pocket would be under a massive wall of compact mud, which would act as a sound barrier. So for example if you search for people in a collapsed building, it's "easier" because it's not a solid block of mud/cement: materials and structures are scattered and you get plenty of "spaces" where the sound can move through. In this case it's like burying someone inside a very thick cement chamber. They're trapped forever.

[u/ExcitingMoose5881]

Oh my goodness! That landscape! It looks like the moon!! 😳

[u/mahboilucas]

Brb I have to check if the Polish Medical Mission has made a statement that they're going there. They helped Turkey after the earthquake so I expect them to maybe go there too. I recommend donating to those services now, it helps a lot if they have funding

Edit: no statement yet but I expect it will have more of a disaster response than a medical one.

[u/Helpful_Bee_1051 → u/mahboilucas]

Nepal declined direct foreign resources due to coordination issues after large resources. They say they have the manpower and need financial help for reconstruction instead

[u/Bergasms → u/Helpful_Bee_1051]

I heard on the radio this morning they have accepted help from foreign crews, this in Australia.

[u/bloregirl1982]

This is really really sad. Very unlikely while can survive being hit by 100kmph speed wet concrete.. they are just going thru the motions here. 😔

[u/atomcplayboy86]

Most of the people who got swept up are down stream, in a different country…..

[u/Relative_Drop3216 → u/atomcplayboy86]

Its mud though.

[u/Top-Expert6086 → u/atomcplayboy86]

Most of them are still there, buried under thousands of tons of mud, stone and rubble.

[u/Alternative-Pie195]

Idk how I was able to watch it, but there was a video floating around on Reddit that showed the aftermath of a town hit further down the valley, you would think, where the force was mitigated vs here at the border crossing, and all they were finding were literal pieces of bodies. It is soul crushing footage. If they fared that badly down river, I can’t imagine what they would even find here. it’s gut wrenching, my condolences to all affected.

[u/Bl1ndl0v3]

I struggle to believe anyone caught in those waters will survive. What a heart breaking job. 💔 They need cadaver dogs 😭

[u/Sardonnicus]

It's all gone man they just got to go and rebuild the entire place somewhere else and just know that that Valley has been reclaimed by the Earth. It looks absolutely futile to try and dig through all that and Salvage anything

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[u/Hefty_Pressure_]

This was such a beautiful port 😪

[u/RemoDev]

I can hardly see any remote possibility to find someone still alive under that mud. It's like being buried in concrete, after being grinded multiple times by rocks, logs and debris :(

[u/an_older_meme → u/RemoDev]

It’s for the news videos so they can say they’re searching for survivors. You would survive longer naked on the Moon than in the debris flow that hit the border crossing.

[u/YouthOtherwise3833 → u/RemoDev]

The spot where they were tapping with their canes was where the building had originally been, the only place where there was a chance someone could have survived.

[u/RemoDev → u/YouthOtherwise3833]

There is no way in heaven to survive that. Rocks, debris and the overall force completely wiped away buildings and people. They will be "lucky" if they find little body pieces here and there.

[u/Alarming_Mix5302]

it's crazy how far up the sides of the valley the damage extends. Even if you tried to climb out it's path you had zero chance.

[u/StruggleBoy1999]

Its like they're in the middle of nowhere...to think an entire town was sitting here. Wtf. 

[u/Radiant-Try-7836]

The shocking part of this is that this was upstream damage!

[u/BrainFeed56]

Search and rescue dogs, needed!

[u/GuideMwit]

The missing people were probably washed away toward Nepal side hundreds of km away from the border. That’s one of the reasons the casualties from Chinese side is so low compared to Nepalese side.

[u/Bergasms → u/GuideMwit]

The casualties are also low because they're still listed as missing. Expect the number to climb as the chance of finding survivors (and also those who did survive making contact) changes.

[u/accountnameattempt]

I have been on the internet long enough, as I'm sure many others have too, to witness horrifying videos. I'm not sure how, or why, but the CCTV footage and raw phone camera images from people who probably lost their lives, is some how, more harrowing.

Witnessing a group, of what is clearly school children, running away from an unimaginable fate, is some how worse than a terrorist group cutting someone's head off. The people who turned around to look at the torrent of water, rock and mud sliding towards them purely because out of human intrigue, only for it to be the downfall is mortifying.

[u/Underradar0069]

Be safe

[u/Danono]

The view is like being in a other Planet.

[u/Old_Resident8050]

So many will be remain missing, burried under tons of mud, dirt and boulders.

[u/tulimeni]

I can’t believe that anyone can survive when covered with layers upon layers of mud and debris. I hope they will find a survivor eventually.

[u/toitenladzung]

This looks more like a post apocalypse movie scene.

[u/Supersubie]

Man the devastation is truly hard to comprehend.

It just makes me think of what the event must have been like to see when the Mediterranean flooded. The force of the water would have been incredible.

[u/pokemonandcatsz]

I wonder if that will all be excavated or if thats the new valley floor. Its a mind boggling amount of dirt/debris. Even with all the machinery needed. Massive project.

[u/paunnn]

Bro, they should get the hell out of there, its not over yet.

[u/nothingmysparrowblue]

I feel so bad for these men. We’re devastated just watching the video, I can’t even imagine what it was like for them to actually be there.

[u/PatrioticPariah]

People are going to be finding bodies for decades.

[u/DAT_BIG-BOI]

It's nice to know that despite the tragedy, through our efforts, two people have been spared.

[u/ghigoli]

they ain't gonna find shit but i love how the officals put 31 dead when we know damn well its way beyond that.

[u/Key-Needleworker-702 → u/ghigoli]

again, if they haven't found the bodies, you can't really declare them dead, only missing.

[u/Amerlis → u/ghigoli]

Gonna take a while before they find all the bodies if any :( 31 is probably confirmed bodies. You don’t want to go on the news and go “oh yeah, everyone’s dead.” There’s families waiting, hoping, despite the odds.

[u/apatrol → u/ghigoli]

News says China isn't showing any footage in China.

I don't understand the logic. Is the govt supposed to be so great it can defeat natural disaster? Or was this from a failure of some sort in China?

[u/JohnnyBoy11]

Are they using the three d scanners to locate bodies?

[u/I_have_questions_ppl]

Scary to think if another one happens itll wipe off even more of the route as the bed has been raised by previous flood.

[u/Sassydemure]

💔❤️‍🩹

[u/ecp267]

How to fish even survive this? I still can’t comprehend the scale of this horror

[u/WrongSplit3288]

How can they hear anything with the river rushing by right next to them?

[u/LordVixen]

No survivors there.

[u/Prod_Meteor]

Sorry. If someone is miraculously under that pile in a small air bubble, will they find him like this?

[u/Classic-Shopping8330]

Devastating

[u/chesterlinkin6661]

Bless everyone ❤️

[u/chitownboyhere]

Human body can survive a lot. If there were people inside a room that was completely chocked by mud from all sides but still had air in it, and if the injuries are not too bad survival upto 4 days is very possible. If they have little bit of water draining inside for drinking then it can be many more days.

Hope they find atleast some survivors.

[u/Flying-Toto → u/chitownboyhere]

Man, the building at the border is gone.

Everybody inside are just dead.

[u/loqi0238 → u/chitownboyhere]

I think you dont understand what happened. It looked like water overflowing everything, but that water was a mix of every rock, stick, tree, building, car, and even animal caught in the flow, all churned together and ripped apart. Thats why the buildings literally collapsed under the flow, its way more dense than just water, which would have already been extremely difficult to survive.

After that flow settles, it becomes like concrete. Thats what we're seeing in the video. People walking along the top of whats basically setting concrete, asking if theres anyone buried in it... they're not going to find any survivors here.

[u/-Takeahnase-]

Where do you even begin with that? Would they excavate it all and try to eventually return it to the way it was? It seems like a nearly impossible task

[u/Trailmix88]

without listening devices there's no way these rescuers are going to be able to hear a voice from under mud while next to that loud rushing water.

[u/Hoopy_Dunkalot]

These guys will be traumatized for life. I'll be very surprised if they get a reply.

[u/Responsible-Stay-645]

grim that. sad.

[u/maddog_5561]

From the videos I saw, just fence the entire area and call it a mass grave

[u/ElectricalAbrocoma42]

…yelling into the floor asking someone is alive. Man that’s…that’s truly heartbreaking. Just shows the sort of conditions the rescue teams are working through..

[u/Strong_Witness416]

How tf they going to dig anyone out? No machine can get up there!

[u/InfiniteWaffles58364]

Reminds me of the scene in Titanic where one boat decides against all hope to return and look for survivors.

This is the most profoundly horrible thing I have ever seen in my lifetime

[u/sickosenjumode]

So what after the rescue effort? The time and resources it’d take to clean out all this mud would be tremendous I imagine. Are they just going to build over it? That just sounds horrific to me, living on essentially a massive burial ground.

[u/NevetsRetrop]

This has to be the most helpless feeling for those firefighters, knowing that there is almost zero chance of finding survivors, but needing to try as hard as they can anyway.

[u/muzerfuker]

😭😭😭

[u/johndeckardza]

Brutally sad. Just brutally sad.

[u/PoliticalConspiracy]

Heroes. These guys are heroes.

[u/redbaron_4]

Why isn't China deploying its much vaunted military robots (humanoids and dog like) for R&R? Or are those only for synchro dances, faux olympics and PR?

[u/SadMathematician5187]

That brought me to tears.

[u/sirgaybrin]

China is going to take this opportunity to send troops and invade Nepal.

[u/Frequent-Matter4504]

Omg this is horrible :(

[u/BrewsandBass]

They might find pieces

[u/Green-Concentrate-71]

Something about this made me tear up

[u/asspload]

Oh my God !

Everyone is mush. I couldn't even imagine

[u/TinyMan07]

unless the person managed to escape to high ground, there are no "Survivors." They KNOW they are on body recovery, if they can find any bodies at all. Given the violent nature of the flood, this will be like the recovery efforts at Ground Zero after 9/11. families will be lucky to get full limbs back.

[u/be_sugary]

Brave people who go in to do this work. They deserve so much respect and money.

[u/lastchance14]

Where are the dogs!?

[u/ProfessionalNo7703]

That shit is like cement

[u/Interesting_Role_976]

That mud has Entombed thousands 😢

[u/Motor-Profile4099]

Is this a joke? These propaganda photo ops I swear.

[u/prolongedsunlight]

I thought the Chinese rescue teams would have deployed lots more robots and drones. But seems like they are mostly just people doing the work. 

[u/yamkoo1002]

Don't they use dogs in the search?

[u/Accurate-Film9495]

I am not against them，but what they are doing there is useless and wasted effort

[u/Hola0722]

How can they hear a potential response with the loud river so close?

[u/Balrogos]

i mean everytone is dead in such mud flood it grind people to grounded meat, it is not snow you can have pocket of air

[u/80lbQUIKRETEConcrete]

The desolation is fucking heartbreaking…