
Aid Rush Intensifies as Rising Barrier Lake Threatens Nepal-Tibet Flood Zone
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.