{"id":44128,"date":"2026-08-30T10:27:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T08:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=44128"},"modified":"2026-08-30T10:27:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T08:27:02","slug":"countries-of-261-foreigners-missing-in-himalayan-mudslide-identified","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/countries-of-261-foreigners-missing-in-himalayan-mudslide-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Countries of 261 foreigners missing in Himalayan mudslide identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">China <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">this Sunday<\/span><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\"> said 261 \u200bforeign nationals from 23 countries were missing on the Tibetan side of a border crossing with \u200cNepal following a mudslide which tore through the Himalayan region, while the death toll in Tibet has reached 16 people.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Officials from China\u2019s Tibet Autonomous Region said at a press conference that the highest number of missing foreigners was from Nepal at 104, \u200bwhile 49 Indian, 33 Latvian, 18 American and 15 British citizens were also unaccounted for. They \u200bsaid authorities in Beijing have notified foreign missions.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The nationality breakdown was the first from the \u2060Chinese side since the collapse of a glacier on Wednesday unleashed a torrent of ice, rock, mud and debris \u200bdown Himalayan rivers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Authorities said 16 people had died in Gyirong County as of <span dir=\"ltr\">Saturday evening<\/span> and that 546 \u200bwere missing.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In Nepal, the disaster authority said at least 675 people were killed on its side of the border, 2 498 are missing and 7 514 have been rescued.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Local police told\u00a0<i>Reuters<\/i>\u00a0that residents and rescue workers have moved to higher ground after the water \u200blevel in the nearby Trishuli River rose over the past few hours, underscoring the risk of further flooding \u200beven as rescue efforts continue.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p>\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":43918,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-44128","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"In Nepal, the disaster authority said at least 675 people were killed on its side of the border.","published_date":"","news_description":"In Nepal, the disaster authority said at least 675 people were killed on its side of the border.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44129,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44128\/revisions\/44129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=44128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}