Rescuers worked through mud and debris in areas devastated by a flash flood along the Himalayan border between Nepal and China. They searched on Friday for hundreds of people still missing as the death toll rose and Nepali and Chinese authorities warned of further flooding from a lake that formed upstream after Wednesday’s disaster and was already overflowing. They urged people in potentially affected areas to move to safer ground. Police in Nepal said Friday morning that the country’s death toll had risen to 469 from 390 a day earlier. China had not updated its report of three deaths in Tibet. Together, the two countries have said more than 1,500 people are missing.

Rescuers have pulled out survivors caked in dark brown mud and helicopters have lifted stranded people to safety after catastrophic floods on the Nepal-China border. The countries raced to respond Friday after the flooding killed more than 470 people and left more than 1,500 missing. Nepal police said the country’s death toll had risen to 469, injured people were taken to hospitals and helicopters had carried more than 3,000 stranded people to safety. In contrast on the Chinese side, there was little information on survivors, although the death toll rose to five. Both sides were concerned about more flooding and told rescuers to remain on high alert.

Mount Kailash in Tibet is sacred to several religious traditions and draws pilgrims from many places. People missing in the flooding that occurred Wednesday after a glacier collapse along the Nepal-China border included Indian nationals on pilgrimage to Mount Kailash. Pilgrims traditionally walk around the mountain rather than climb it, completing a roughly 33-mile circuit as a religious practice. Nearby Lake Manasarovar is also a site of spiritual purification.

Scientists say a deadly flash flood in Nepal on Wednesday was likely caused by a glacier chunk breaking off and temporarily damming a river. This may have led to a surge of water downstream, killing hundreds and leaving many more missing. The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude 5.2 glacier collapse, causing catastrophic debris flow. Researchers are still analyzing satellite and ground-level data to understand the event. Experts say it's too early to directly link the disaster to global warming, but note that rising temperatures increase such risks, especially in the rapidly warming Himalayan region.

Nepal authorities raise number of missing to more than 800 after floods that also left more than 550 missing in China.

China's state media says 558 people are missing in Tibet after floods that left hundreds of others also missing in Nepal.

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A mudslide in Tibet’s Gyirong County near Nepal has killed at least 3 and left 265 missing, China's state media says (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously reported "near Tibet").

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