Nepal holds a day of mourning and rescue efforts continue after flash floods kill 1,300

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Nepal holds a day of mourning and rescue efforts continue after flash floods kill 1,300  Rescue efforts have increasingly focused on 12 hydropower projects, where about 900 workers are missing and roughly 500 are believed to be trapped in various tunnels, authorities said.   READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2026/09/07/nepal-holds-a-day-of-mourning-and-rescue-efforts-continue-after-flash-floods-kill-1300  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Nepal held a day of mourning on Monday for victims of devastating floods that struck

00:04on August 26.

00:06It was the 13th day since the disaster, which killed more than 1,300 people in Nepal and

00:12Tibet and left around 5,000 missing, according to Nepal's Disaster Management Agency.

00:18Families carried out mourning rituals, while some performed symbolic funerals for relatives

00:23whose bodies had not been found.

00:25Search efforts continued, particularly at 12 hydropower projects where authorities said

00:30around 900 workers were missing and roughly 500 were believed trapped in tunnels.

00:37Specialist teams from India, China, South Korea and the United States joined the search through

00:43debris, damaged structures and tunnels.

00:46Some rescue experts described the operation as an unprecedented challenge, while the Nepal

00:50army said rescuers were continuing searches on the ground by air and inside tunnels.

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