Nepal (MNN) — There was little time to escape. On Wednesday morning, August 26, a chunk of glacier broke off a Himalayan mountainside in Tibet. The mass of ice and rock created a dam in the Lhende river below, which soon burst. This sent deadly flash floods hurtling deeper into Tibet as well as over
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. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY On 26 August 2026 (10 Bhadra 2083), a severe flash flood travelled through the Lhende Khola–Bhotekoshi–Trishuli–Narayani river system. It was caused by an ice and rock avalanche, rather than monsoon rainfall. A hanging glacier and rocky mass covering approxima...
