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Rescuers Race to Find Missing After Glacier Collapse · GNN Daily Breaking News

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  Speaker 1: In the Himalayas, rescuers are racing against time to locate
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  Speaker 1: thousands of people missing after a catastrophic glacier collapse on
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  Speaker 1: the Nepal. China border unleashed torrents of water, mud, and
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  Speaker 1: rock across mountain valleys. The disaster, described as one of
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  Speaker 1: the worst in decades, has already claimed nearly 400 lives,
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  Speaker 1: with entire villages swept away and infrastructure destroyed. The collapse
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  Speaker 1: occurred near Razawa district in Nepal, sending a massive ice
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  Speaker 1: rock avalanche downstream into Nuakot and Dating, and across the
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  Speaker 1: border into Tibet's Zhirong region. Witnesses reported walls of debris
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  Speaker 1: crashing through settlements, flattening homes and bridges, and cutting off roads.
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  Speaker 1: Helicopters and bulldozers have been deployed, but relentless bad weather
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  Speaker 1: has grounded flights and slowed access to remote areas. Authorities
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  Speaker 1: say more than 1,400 people remain unaccounted for, including hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of foreign nationals. India has confirmed nearly 290 citizens missing,
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  Speaker 1: many pilgrims on the Kailash-Mansarovar Yatra. The United States has
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  Speaker 1: reported about 90 missing, while Canada, Australia, Britain, Malaysia, Portugal,
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  Speaker 1: South Africa, South Korea, and the Netherlands have also listed
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  Speaker 1: nationals among the missing. Rescue operations are being coordinated by
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  Speaker 1: Nepal's army and police, with support from China, which has
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  Speaker 1: sent hundreds of emergency personnel into Tibet. Premier Li Cheng
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  Speaker 1: visited the disaster zone, underscoring the regional scale of the tragedy.
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  Speaker 1: India has set up emergency control rooms in Delhi and
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  Speaker 1: issued helplines for stranded nationals, while the Nepal Tourism Board
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  Speaker 1: has activated its tourist police hotline, 985-128, 9445. Humanitarian agencies
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  Speaker 1: warn of worsening conditions in relief camps, where displaced families
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  Speaker 1: face shortages of food, clean water, and medical supplies. Doctors
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  Speaker 1: caution that outbreaks of waterborne diseases are likely if aid
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  Speaker 1: does not arrive quickly. Scientists add that upstream glacial lakes
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  Speaker 1: remain unstable, raising fears of further collapses. For Nepal and China,
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  Speaker 1: The disaster highlights the growing risks of climate-driven catastrophes in
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  Speaker 1: the Himalayas. Experts have long warned that melting glaciers and
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  Speaker 1: unstable terrain could trigger collapses of this scale. The tragedy
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  Speaker 1: has now intensified calls for stronger disaster preparedness and cross-border cooperation.
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  Speaker 1: As rescuers continue their search, families wait anxiously for news
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  Speaker 1: of missing loved ones. The race against time in one
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  Speaker 1: of the world's harshest landscapes underscores both the fragility of
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  Speaker 1: mountain communities and the urgency of global solidarity in the
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  Speaker 1: face of climate change.