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• Search ends for Nepal-Tibet glacier and debris flood: about 1,450 dead, about 5,200 missing

  Nepal's government ended the search-and-rescue phase on Monday, 5 October for the disaster that began on 26 August when a glacier and debris collapsed at 5,200 m in the Langtang Lirung range and turned into a landslide flood. Nepal's disaster authority counts 1,453-1,455 dead, about 5,285 missing and about 13,795 rescued. Bodies will no longer be actively searched for but recovered if found during reconstruction, and procedures are under way to declare the missing legally dead. Twelve hydropower plants, along with roads, bridges and farmland, were destroyed, and the Tibet side was reported to have 43 dead and 519 missing (as of September, subject to later change).

  Sources: nbcnews.comnews.az