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At least 541 people are killed after flash flooding in the Rasuwa and Nuwakot Districts of Nepal and along the China–Nepal border. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Spoken News, where Wikipedia excerpts are read verbatim
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  by a computer. At least 541 people are killed after
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  flash flooding in the Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts of Nepal
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  and along the China-Nepal border. On the morning of the
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  26th of August, 2026, an unprecedented series of flash floods
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  along a 72-kilometer stretch of the Trishuli River struck dozens
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  of settlements in Nepal's Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts. It destroyed
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  the Garong Port Complex on the China-Nepal border, the major
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  gateway for trade and tourism between the countries. The flood
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  carried the bodies of some victims 240 kilometers away and
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  ultimately reached Galchi, Nepal. At least 547 people are confirmed
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  dead and 977 missing in Nepal and five dead and
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  558 missing in China. Authorities have issued flood warnings for
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  communities along rivers in the Rasuwa, Nuakot, Dading, Gorkha, and
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  Chitwan districts. The precipitating geological event, thought to have been
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  a glacier collapse near Langtang Lirong of the Himalayas, caused
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  a tremor with a magnitude of 5.2 that was detected
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  by seismometers in the United States and Germany. The China-Nepal
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  border is the international boundary between the Tibet Autonomous Region
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  of China and Nepal. It is 1389 kilometers in length
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  and runs in a northwest-southeast direction along the Himalayan mountain range,
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  including Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. The line of
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  the border has changed dramatically over time, especially when considering
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  events such as the 1951 Chinese annexation of Tibet. Some
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  of the most significant developments of modern times are the
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  signing of the Agreement on Maintaining Friendly Relations between the
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  People's Republic of China and the Kingdom of Nepal in
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  1956 and the Sino-Nepalese Treaty of Peace and Friendship in 1960.
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  both of which formally recognized Tibet as a part of
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  China and confirmed the limits of the countries of China
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  and Nepal as they are known today. Nuwakot district, a
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  part of Bagmati province, is one of the 77 districts
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  of Nepal. The district, with Badur as its district headquarters,
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  covers an area of 1,121 square kilometers and had a
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  population of 288,478 in 2001 and 277,471 in 2011. The
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  district contains places of historical significance, such as the town
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  of Nuwakat and the village of Devagat, located at the
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  confluence of the Thadi and Trishuli rivers. Kakani is popular
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  among Nepalese people as a touristic place and picnic spot.
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  Rasuwa district is one of 13 districts of Begmati province
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  and one of 77 districts of Nepal. The district, with
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  Dunche Gosikunda Rural Municipality as its district headquarters, covers an
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  area of 1,544 square kilometers and and has a population
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  of 43,300. Its district post office has a Rasuwa DPO
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  code of 45,000. There are five post offices in the district.
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  As per census, 2011 total households in Rasuwa district were 9,778.
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  It is the smallest district by area, among 16 districts
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  in the Himalaya region of Nepal. That's it for now.
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  See the episode notes for sources and licensing. Thank you.