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The death toll from the Nepal-Tibet flash floods has reached 474, with rescue efforts halted due to an overflowing lake posing a burst risk. Over 1,300 people remain missing, including hundreds of tourists.
🐿️ Squirrels watching rising floodwaters know: when the lake threatens to burst, even rescuers head for higher ground.
Rescuers on the Nepal-Tibet border have withdrawn after a landslide-formed barrier lake raised fears of a second flood, as the death toll reached 474. Chinese state media controls are hampering independent assessment of damage in Tibet while Nepal's devastation emerges.
🐿️ The barrier lake is a ticking time bomb: if it bursts, downstream villages already reeling from the first flood could face an even larger wall of water.
