China reports that a landslide-dammed lake formed upstream after a flash flood has overflowed, prompting Nepal to urge rescue forces and downstream residents to move to higher ground.
Experts report that the powerful flood in Nepal, laden with mud, sand, gravel, and boulders, resembles high-speed liquid concrete, possessing twice the destructive force of water.
The Vietnamese Embassy in China and the Vietnamese Embassy in India, which is also accredited to Nepal, stated that no Vietnamese citizens have been reported affected by the flash floods.
Rescue forces found the bodies of three children, aged three to 14, from Cheo Bau village, Gia Phu commune, after a flash flood swept them away during heavy rain on the evening of 1/8.
Heavy, continuous rainfall, combined with steep terrain and heavily weathered geology, caused soil, rocks, and trees to rush down mountain slopes into Muong Than valley, forming a flash flood.
Three days after the flash flood, the Muong Than valley, spanning a few square kilometers, remains inundated with mud and soil, national route 32 is torn apart, and homes have collapsed.
Swept from their homes by a flash flood, two men in Chit village clung to tree branches, waiting for nearly three hours before authorities rescued them.
