Nepal flash floods latest: At least 469 dead as rescuers race to find survivors amid fears of second flood

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And China warned that water equivalent to 1,200 Olympic swimming pools is expected to flow into an already dammed lake on ⁠its side of the border over the next three days, creating a high risk of its banks bursting.

Basanta Raj Adhikari, the director of the Centre for Disaster Studies at the Tribhuvan University in Nepal, told the BBC that there was a risk that conditions worsen today or tomorrow, including landslides.

The situation on the ground has complicated rescue efforts, with at least 1,000 people still unaccounted for, including almost 650 foreigners and 33 British tourists swept up in Wednesday’s flooding caused by a glacier collapse.

The president of the Nepal Centre for Disaster Management said the disaster came at them like a “tsunami from the sky”.

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