‘Extremely risky operations’: Rescuers work amid threat of river banks bursting

Nearly 3,000 people remained missing on Saturday, while 682 deaths had been confirmed after flash floods and landslides hit the Nepal-Tibet border. Rescue operations remain risky as a lake formed upstream by the floods threatens to burst its banks...

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‘Extremely risky operations’: Rescuers work amid threat of river banks bursting

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