RACE AGAINST RISING WATERS: Search efforts challenged as rain pounds Nepal #nepal #shorts #flood

John, Nepal's tourism board just. provided an update this evening, saying. 289 missing foreign nationals have been. rescued, including two Americans. But. the situation is growing more dire by. the day. Heavy rains swelled rivers and. lakes upstream. This footage taken just. a few hours ago. Those rising water. levels forced crews to completely stop. rescue operations at times. Trying to. get teams and supplies into the area is. also extremely challenging, as you can. imagine. Flood warnings were sent to.

residents phones this morning, telling. them to get to higher ground. Crews. focused on rescuing hundreds of people, possibly trapped inside tunnels at a. hydro power project in Nepal. You can. see carefully repelling down inside. narrow openings to try to reach them. Relatives anxiously waiting for any sort. of news. >> We have not been able to identify. anyone. I have been searching for him. for the past three or four days without. getting any sleep. I believe there are. many other families like mine who are. suffering and they too must be. desperately trying to identify their.

loved ones. >> Scientists say Wednesday's flash flood. was triggered by a glacier collapse that. struck with a 5.3 magnitude. The death. toll continues to rise. Officials say 16. people were killed in Tibet and at least. 788 were killed in Nepal. More than. 3,000 remain missing, including dozens. of Americans.