One Vietnamese missing in Nepal border floods; none reported missing on China side

The press office of the People's Government of China's Tibet Autonomous Region said Sunday that authorities had identified 261 foreign nationals from 23 countries whose whereabouts remained unknown after the disaster in China's Gyirong County, which borders Nepal, according to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA).

The list, which included no Vietnamese, comprised 104 Nepali nationals, 49 Indians, 33 Latvians, 18 Americans, 15 Britons, six Canadians, six Australians, four South Africans, and three each from Malaysia, Germany and Russia.

It also included two citizens each from Ireland, Estonia, France, the Netherlands and New Zealand, and one each from Kazakhstan, Finland, Lithuania, Portugal, Ukraine, Spain and Hungary.

Chinese authorities have notified the embassies and consulates of the countries concerned, according to VNA.

After multiple search operations and checks in Gyirong, authorities said no foreign tourists remained trapped there.

Chinese authorities have mobilized 2,141 personnel from the military, armed police, rescue forces, border guards and police, along with 269 vehicles and 3,922 sets of rescue equipment, for search and rescue operations in the disaster-hit area.

Meanwhile, the Nepal Tourism Board has reported that one Vietnamese citizen is missing after flash floods and landslides struck northern Nepal along the border with China on Wednesday.

The Vietnamese Embassy in India, which is also accredited to Nepal and Bhutan, is coordinating with the Vietnamese community in Nepal and the Vietnamese honorary consul in the country to verify information about the missing citizen, according to VNA.

Nepal's disaster authority said 734 people had died, 2,498 remained missing and 7,514 had been rescued.

On the Chinese side, authorities said 16 people had been killed and 546 remained missing in Gyirong County, Reuters reported on Sunday.

The flash floods were triggered by the collapse of a glacier on the southern slope of Langtang Lirung in Nepal on Wednesday, according to international media.