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Nepal flash floods

August 27, 2026

Hundreds of people in the Himalayas were killed when flash floods swept down the Trishuli River along the Nepal-Tibet border on August 26. The disaster, caused by a glacier collapse, devastated entire villages.

A boy seen from behind looks at the devastation caused by flash flooding along the Trishuli River in Nepal, August 26, 2026 — Image: Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo/picture alliance

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