China raises the death toll to 31 and puts the number of missing at 531 from the floods in Tibet

Authorities in Nepal have updated the death toll from recent catastrophic flooding and landslides to 1,295 fatalities, with 4,898 individuals still reported missing. The disaster, which began with a major landslide on August 26 in the Himalayan region, has caused widespread devastation across the country.

Amidst the ongoing recovery efforts, rescue teams successfully extracted two workers alive from a tunnel in northern Nepal on Friday. The survival of the two men, who had been trapped since the initial landslide, has been characterized as an unexpected development following the disaster.