Nepal Flash Floods Leave 1,400 Dead and 80,000 Needing Aid After Glacier Collapse
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Updated · The Guardian · Sep 30
Nepal Flash Floods Leave 1,400 Dead and 80,000 Needing Aid After Glacier Collapse
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Sep 30
Summary
More than 1,400 people have died, 5,700 are missing and over 80,000 still need humanitarian assistance after a glacier collapsed on 26 August and unleashed flash floods across Nepal’s Himalayan border region.
5,030 pregnant women are among those affected, UN agencies say, including about 750 with complications and 550 due to give birth next month despite damaged roads, bridges and hospitals.
Pooja Pariyal, 21, spent three days stranded on Trishuli hospital’s roof with her three-month-old baby before an army helicopter evacuated about 50 patients and staff; her daughter was later diagnosed with pneumonia.
Kalpana Nepali, seven months pregnant, and other displaced women now face crowded shelters, shared toilets and disrupted care, with high-risk pregnancies set for airlift to Kathmandu before delivery.
Landslips and localized flooding have continued for weeks, deepening trauma for mothers who escaped with children while neighbors and homes were swept away.