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Nepal and China both warn of fresh risks of flooding in the Himalayas as two lakes that developed on their border threaten to burst. This after dealing with Wednesday’s catastrophic floods.

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00:00Nepal and China both warn of fresh risks of flooding in the Himalayas as two lakes that
00:05developed on their border threatened to burst, this after dealing with Wednesday's catastrophic
00:09floods. Search and rescue operations are still underway with nearly 1,000 people still missing
00:15after floods struck the border regions of Nepal and China's Tibet, killing at least 362 people.
00:21Among those missing in the Nepal flash floods is a Filipino citizen. Both countries blamed the
00:26flood on a glacier collapse that pushed rock, ice, mud and debris into river systems in the mountains.
00:32Nepal's disaster authority issued a notice warning that a lake formed by debris blocking a river at
00:37the flood site is rising and at risk of bursting. Meantime, China warned that 3 million cubic meters
00:43of water are expected to flow into an already blocked lake on its side of the border over the
00:47next three days, creating a high risk of a breach with peak flow expected around September 1.

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