Photos: Nearly 1,000 dead, thousands missing in Nepal–China border floods
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Current understanding
Current understanding
Reports on the Nepal–China border floods give differing death tolls, with some saying the number has surpassed 900 and others placing it at nearly 1,000 or nearly 800. [1][2][3]
Some headlines also report that hundreds are feared stuck in hydropower tunnels, while others say more than 3,000 people are missing. [4][5][3]
One report says Nepal is burying victims of the flooding, but the broader scale of the event remains described through changing counts in the headlines. [6][1][4][2]
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Impact assessment
100/100
Impact assessment
critical human impact
Independent ownership groups report compatible measurable claims.
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What shaped this score
Each dimension is scored separately out of 100.
The strongest evidenced dimension establishes the base score. Separate human-impact dimensions can add a bounded share of the remaining headroom without double-counting the same harm.
The current fatality scale reaches 100 at 100 reported deaths. Since this headline reports 900, the loss component is capped at 100/100; the exact count still breaks ranking ties.
What the reporting supports
- Reported deaths900 reported deaths
death toll surpasses 900