{"id":294646,"date":"2026-08-27T10:44:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=294646"},"modified":"2026-08-27T12:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T08:31:42","slug":"more-than-1300-missing-including-300-foreigners-after-devastating-flood-hits-nepal-china-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/294646\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 1,300 missing, including 300 foreigners, after devastating flood hits Nepal-China border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

More than 1,300 people are missing – including at least 300 foreigners – after catastrophic flash flooding hit China and Nepal on Wednesday. More than 160 people are confirmed dead, with search and rescue operations ongoing, CNN<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Critical trade infrastructure in the frontier region has been damaged, threatening an extended halt in economic activity between the two countries.<\/p>\n

A powerful landslide blocked the Bhote Koshi river, sending a torrent of water downstream from China to Nepal. A group of scientists believe a glacier may have broken off and fallen into the valley below, which triggered or at least compounded the effect of the landslide.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than 1,300 people are missing – including at least 300 foreigners – after catastrophic flash flooding hit China and Nepal on Wednesday. More than 160 people are confirmed dead, with search and rescue operations ongoing, CNN writes. Critical trade infrastructure in the frontier region has been damaged, threatening an extended halt in economic activity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":294605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294647,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294646\/revisions\/294647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}