Nepal flash floods updates on August 28, 2026: Death toll rises to 579; nearly 2,000 people still missing

Nepal's flash flood death toll has climbed to five hundred seventy-nine, with nearly two thousand people still unaccounted for, The Hindu reports. India's Ministry of External Affairs says at least three hundred twenty Indian nationals remain among the missing, with roughly four hundred others stranded on the Chinese side of the border. The disaster, unfolding since Saturday, spans one of the most flood-prone and glacier-fed regions in the Himalayas.

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