00:00a wall of ice and mud taller than a twenty-story building just swept through the himalayas and the death
00:05toll keeps climbing on wednesday a massive chunk of the langtang lirung glacier broke off high above the nepal china
00:13border
00:13crashing down and instantly mixing with water and rock to form a 250-foot wall of debris the impact was
00:20so violent it was first mistaken for a 4.4 magnitude earthquake until scientists traced the shaking to the glacial
00:28collapse itself the surge tore through towns and villages along the trisuli river sweeping away bridges buses and buildings in
00:35seconds nepalese police now say at least 389 people have died and 466 are injured with dozens of officers
00:43among those still unaccounted for on the chinese side of the border crews have cleared hundreds of meters of debris
00:49choked road to reach the hard-hit gear on crossing deploying nearly 700 firefighters and rescue dogs officials are now
00:57also watching a landslide dam upriver that could unleash a second wave of flooding at any moment disclosure this video
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