Thousands still missing after China-Nepal flood

数千人失踪,中尼洪水过后仍情况不明

Newshour

2026-08-27

47 分钟
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Rescuers in China and Nepal are searching for about 1,300 people who are missing after a flash flood hit the two countries. At least 359 people have died in Nepal, with three confirmed deaths in China. We'll hear from both countries. Also in the programme: Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb commander who was convicted of genocide, has died in prison - we hear from the journalist Allan Little who covered him for the BBC and Hasan Hasanovic, a survivor of Srebrenica massacre; why some species of bats are able to live so long; and we'll remember the Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, whose struggles with her mental health fuelled her work: (Photo shows flood survivors in Devighat Village, Nuwakot district, Nepal on 27 August 2026. Credit: Narendra Shrestha/EPA)
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  • Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.

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  • I'm James Menendez and we're going to begin straight away today in Nepal where hundreds of people,

  • many of them foreign tourists on trekking holidays, are missing.

  • That's after a flash flood swept down from across the border in China, destroying almost everything in its path.

  • Images from the aftermath, and some of them are up on our website right now,

  • show a swathe of water and mud engulfing entire villages in its path.