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Catastrophic flash floods and a glacial lake outburst near the Nepal-China border have killed more than 550 people, with Nepal's disaster management authority saying nearly 1,924 people remain unaccounted for as of Friday, August 28, 2026. Nepal's tourism board says more than 500 tourists from 28 countries, including about 90 U.S. citizens, are missing, among them Shital Chetan Chohan of Powell, Tennessee, whose family is pleading for information. Chinese state media had earlier reported 558 people missing before the death toll climbed further. A newly formed glacial lake now poses an additional flood threat to downstream communities, and coverage has explained the difference between the glacial collapse that triggered the disaster and an earthquake, noting the event behaved more like a landslide with heavy ice and debris runoff. The disaster has drawn global attention given the scale of foreign casualties and the ongoing search for missing tourists in the Himalayan mountain towns.