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“She loved me so much”
CNN speaks to Kopila, a girl from the worst-hit area of Rasuwa, who lost 17 family members in the flood.
Even in their makeshift shelters - Nepal’s displaced people feel unsafe - & fear more floods will come.
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"Everyone in this picture is gone"
Displaced flood survivors in Nepal are living in makeshift shelters, dealing with unimaginable loss and fear.
@willripleyCNN speaks to a girl who lost 17 members of her family in the floods and a young boy who lost 8 members of his.
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Two men are pulled from a Nepal tunnel nine days after the devastating flash flood trapped them. Arnold Dix, a disaster expert who has been advising the search and rescue team remotely, is now on the ground there and hoping more survivors are found.
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What made the Nepal-China floods so devastating? |
Sorrow & survival after the "tsunami in the sky"
Watch the latest episode of Meanwhile In Asia with @KunalSehgal92 @HanakoMontgome1 & @BillWeirCNN
#Nepal
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"Everyone in this picture is gone"
Displaced flood survivors in Nepal are living in makeshift shelters, dealing with unimaginable loss and fear.
@willripleyCNN speaks to a girl who lost 17 members of her family in the floods and a young boy who lost 8 members of his.
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Nepali Foreign Minister, Shisir Khanal, provides an update on the latest rescue and recovery efforts after floods devastated Nepal.
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"Behind every missing person is a family still waiting."
@HanakoMontgome1 goes on a search and recovery mission with the Nepali police in Bharatpur.
#Nepal
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Nepal: UN humanitarian teams are struggling to reach survivors as the threat of infectious disease looms.
Flooding, displacement, overcrowding, and stagnant water could increase the risk of disease outbreaks, @WHO says.
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I met a girl who lost 17 members of her family and a 13-year-old survivor who nearly got washed away on her school bus. Displaced families are living in makeshift shelters after fleeing the worst-hit area of Rasuwa, Nepal. But they still don’t feel safe and fear more floods.
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It has been one week since the deadly flood hit areas of Nepal. The images and sounds are almost beyond comprehension.
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Anderson goes to one of the hardest hit areas in Nepal to see how they are recovering one week after the flood. He speaks with the hero bus driver who saved around 50 children.
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“The flood came and swept me away,” Manisha told her parents. “I called for Mummy and Baba. Why didn’t you come to save me?”
Heartbreaking testimony from the parents of a 5-year-old girl who survived 60 hours trapped under a building @willripleyCNN @JohnMeesCNN
"I very much tried to save my child."
@WillRipleyCNN spoke to the parents of 5-year-old Manisha, who was rescued more than two days after their home was swept away in #Nepal’s devastating flooding.
Follow live updates: cnn.com/2026/08/31/world/liv…
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"I very much tried to save my child."
@WillRipleyCNN spoke to the parents of 5-year-old Manisha, who was rescued more than two days after their home was swept away in #Nepal’s devastating flooding.
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5 yr old Manisha is recovering in a Kathmandu hospital after surviving nearly 60 hrs buried in the wreckage of Nepal’s floods. I spent time with her and spoke exclusively with her parents about believing their daughter was gone, only to learn she was alive in that rescue video.
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Priya Adhikari is Nepal's first female helicopter captain and she's flown over 100 rescue missions in the wake of the devastating flood. Anderson speaks with her about what she's witnessed.
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More than 3,000 people are still missing from the flood. More than 750 people have been confirmed dead in Nepal and at least 16 in China. Nepali authorities are struggling to cope with the mounting number of bodies. Chinese search teams have found no more survivors yet. @SalmaCNN
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These men had a hellish escape from #Nepal’s flooded #hydro tunnels. They were the lucky ones. Ross Adkin, @HanakoMontgome1, Daniel Campisi and Balmukunda Humagain report.
#China
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A man who barely survived the Nepal flood recounts his miraculous escape, saying there was "a big sound of death everywhere."
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Has Nepal rejected int’l SAR teams? Gov’t says claims Nepal “rejected foreign assistance” are misleading. But Nepal has turned down offers from India, China, the US, UK, Japan, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to deploy SAR teams, Kathmandu Post reports. @AC360 @bexwright1
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FIRST ON CNN An American couple describes how they narrowly escaped the deadly Nepal flood wave: It “came just like a tsunami… we saw people just getting sucked in the water.”
@bexwright1 @JohnMeesCNN @OutFrontCNN @brikeilarcnn
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#China claims “indisputable sovereignty” over a vast part of the #SouthChinaSea. On the latest episode of #MeanwhileinAsia, @klustout explains how China projects its power strategically in the South China Sea.
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