Aid Rush Intensifies as Rising Barrier Lake Threatens Nepal-Tibet Flood Zone
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Rescuers race to deliver aid to flood-stricken Nepal and Tibet as a barrier lake at the flood site swells and could burst; the disaster has killed hundreds and left over 1,300 missing, with bridges and roads destroyed and hundreds of foreigners among the missing, prompting an international aid response and helicopter rescues amid warnings that climate-change-exacerbated floods will become more frequent.
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- Catastrophic floods kill over 360 in Nepal and Tibet, with more than 1,400 missing AP News
- Nepal flood death toll surges as 65 Americans listed among over 1,000 people still missing CBS News
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