The factors hampering Nepal-Tibet flood rescue efforts
The torrent of water that suddenly swept through Himalayan valleys has killed hundreds, but the death toll is expected to rise steeply.
Welcome to the daily Inside Scoop newsletter. Valley communities in the Himalayan region are buried under dense mud a day after intense flash flooding. Rescuers are struggling to get to survivors, foreign correspondent Janis Mackey Frayer reports from Nepal. Also, legal analyst Misty Marris walks us through the Lindsay Clancy case that’s now with the jury. Let’s get into it. A confluence of factors is complicating rescue and relief operations in the mudslide-devastated valleys and villages along the border of Nepal and China’s Tibet region, where hundreds have been killed.
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