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After the flood: rescue and evacuations across the Himalayas

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Rescued children disembark from a helicopter at an army camp following flash floods, in Battar Bazar town in Nepal's Nuwakot district on August 28, 2026. Devastating floods on the Nepal-Tibet border region have killed at least 469 people, Nepali police said on August 28, 48 hours after the disaster. (Photo by PRABIN RANABHAT / AFP)

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Today in Pictures, Aug 28, 2026

Rescued children disembark from a helicopter at an army camp following flash floods, in Battar Bazar town in Nepal's Nuwakot district on August 28, 2026. Devastating floods on the Nepal-Tibet border region have killed at least 469 people, Nepali police said on August 28, 48 hours after the disaster. (Photo by PRABIN RANABHAT / AFP)

In Pictures: Hundreds dead and missing after floods hit Nepal-Tibet border

Rescuers use an excavator to transport a flood survivor, following flash floods and a landslide disaster in Devghat, in the Nepal's Nuwakot district on August 26, 2026. A massive flood and landslide disaster on the Nepal-Tibet border killed at least 103 people on August 26, 2026 and left several hundred missing, many of them foreign tourists. Aid workers said entire settlements had been "wiped out". Some 403 tourists -- 341 of them foreigners -- were unaccounted for several hours after the disaster struck, according to the tourism ministry. (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP)

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