Which countries have citizens killed or missing after Nepal-Tibet flash flood?
Hundreds of foreigners were in area to work, take guided treks or make pilgrimages when disaster struck
Flash floods at the Nepal-Tibet border have killed at least 543 people and more than 1,500 are missing. Hundreds were foreigners in the area to work, take guided treks or make pilgrimages.
Thousands have been rescued, with some of the injured taken to hospitals in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu. The number of missing may vary because of progress in the ongoing rescue efforts and differences in how data has been collected and verified among agencies.
Here is how different countries have been affected.
Nepal
Nepal’s disaster management authority said on Friday the death toll in that country had risen to 538, with 977 people missing. The authority said 3,253 people had been rescued by helicopter, and more than 150 of the injured were taken to hospitals in Kathmandu and the districts of Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading.
Local reports cited the National Emergency Operation Centre as saying on Thursday that the missing included 113 Nepali tourists, 85 personnel from the army and police, 161 residents from the Rasuwa district and one from the Nuwakot district.
China
State media reported on Friday that at least five people had died and 558 were missing in Gyirong County, Tibet. The state broadcaster CCTV reported that 260 of the 558 missing people were foreigners. In addition, nearly 100 Chinese citizens were missing on the Nepal side, China’s foreign ministry said.
India
India’s foreign ministry said 288 Indian nationals remained uncontactable, including 73 people who were working on a power project. Nepali officials said many Indian tourists were on pilgrimage to Mount Kailash in Tibet, a sacred site for Hindus.
US
The US state department said 90 of its citizens were unaccounted for in China and Nepal, but that it was not aware of any US deaths. Three Americans have been rescued.
Malaysia
Officials said 51 Malaysians were missing.
Ukraine
Ukraine’s foreign ministry said 55 Ukrainians were missing. The number includes two tourist groups, of 47 and seven people respectively, in addition to one Ukrainian woman travelling with a foreign tour group.
Australia
The Australian government said 39 Australians were missing.
Britain
Officials said 33 of the missing were from Britain.
Canada
The Nepal tourism board (NTB) said 25 of the missing were from Canada.
South Korea
South Korean government officials said nine citizens working on the construction of a hydropower plant in Nepal were missing.
Singapore
Eight Singaporeans were missing, according to the NTB.
Germany
The NTB said eight tourists from Germany were missing.
Russia
The Russian embassy in Nepal said eight of its citizens were missing.
South Africa
The NTB said six South Africans were missing.
Latvia
The NTB said six tourists from Latvia were missing.
Japan
Japanese media said five Japanese tourists were missing, made up of a couple and their children.
New Zealand
Five people from New Zealand were missing, the NTB said.
France
The NTB said four French citizens were missing.
Belgium
The NTB said three people from Belgium were missing.
Spain
The NTB said three visitors from Spain were missing.
Others
The NTB said two people each from Italy, Kazakhstan, Portugal, Ireland and the Netherlands were missing. It said 10 others – one each from Belarus, Finland, Hungary, Israel, Lithuania, the Philippines, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Serbia and Sweden – were also missing.
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ReplyDeleteFootage of Tibet floods isn't being shown in China - and we know little about victims there
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Laura Bicker
China correspondent, Beijing
The dramatic footage was almost impossible to miss. A torrent of water tearing through Gyirong Port, one of the main border crossings between Nepal and Tibet, sweeping away all in its path as hundreds of people fled for their lives.
The scenes, captured by CCTV cameras, quickly spread on social media and onto screens around the world.
Except here, in China.
Only a single still-frame shot has been broadcast so far by the country's state-run flagship news bulletin.
It has also been difficult to find the video on China's heavily censored internet. It is just as hard to even find posts describing the flash flooding that has claimed hundreds of lives, with just as many still unaccounted for since Wednesday.
Beijing has launched a massive rescue operation involving hundreds of emergency workers, which is continuing, and President Xi Jinping chaired an emergency meeting with officials to co-ordinate efforts.
But when you compare the country's internet content to what much of the world has been seeing online these past few days, China's firewall becomes more visible than ever.
Tibet, which Beijing annexed in the 1950s, had long resisted rule by the Chinese Communist Party.
China has quashed protests over the years, sometimes violently, and has been accused of grave rights violations in the Buddhist region. It has labelled the exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, a separatist.
That history means the very name Tibet draws China's censors. Beijing's sensitivities are especially apparent at times likes this.
There have been daily updates on the missing and the dead, and Beijing has also been posting updates on the rescue operations, as well as the dangers posed by a barrier lake that has been at risk of overflowing.
But there is little detail beyond that. There are no accounts from survivors in Tibet, and almost no user-generated footage showing the deadly moments or their aftermath.
We are yet to hear from anxious families of those missing. Trying to contact people there is near-impossible during regular times.
As a journalist who has covered North Korea, it has often been easier for me to contact interviewees in Pyongyang than it is in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa.
On Thursday night, as global headlines led on the devastation in a Himalayan valley, China's state broadcaster opened its main bulletin with the launch of Xi's new book, a selection of his "most important and fundamental works".
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Just bcoz u don't read Chinese, so that u can fart around with yr lies!
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