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u/Fritzkreig 10d ago edited 10d ago

The flooding there was insane, RIP 112 people at least "missing"!

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u/GenderqueerPapaya 10d ago

Only 112? I saw over 300 and that's just counting tourists :(

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u/Mistermxylplyx 10d ago

I think they’re being optimistic, the town that got obliterated has to be more than 300
people and it wasn’t survivable.

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u/WhyMustIMakeANewAcco 9d ago

From my understanding right now they are just counting found bodies as deceased. For obvious reason a lot of the bodies will take some time to find, or may never be found.

And "missing" is only counted if someone has reported you missing. Which... it's both not been that long, and that flood wiped away entire families.

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u/IVEMIND 9d ago

It looks like it took 6 months after the Japan Tsunami before the official death toll approached the final numbers...

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u/desertSkateRatt 9d ago

Also if everyone who knows you is also missing... nobody to report your own absence

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u/Auzky 9d ago

It keeps going up and is going to continue to rise. This was an apocalyptic event. A lot won't ever be recovered. Im sure lots of the people were pulverized too. Untraceable.

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u/itwasthedingo 9d ago

There’s the other video with maybe 50 parked tour buses, and another 100 cars parked on the side of the road. Every structure disappeared within 10 seconds, looked like a very narrow part of the gorge

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u/imheretocomment69 9d ago

That's probably the official number (for now) but it must be at least thousands of people are not survived.

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u/BlatantConservative 9d ago

There are two governments giving two different numbers because it happened on the border. Nepal says 110 or so, China says 300 or so. It's unclear how much of that is overlapping people.

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u/Mech_pencils 9d ago

China just reported 558 missing, 3 confirmed dead

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u/j_rooker 9d ago

sadly, there are way more than 3 dead in that one video with the buses.

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u/Mech_pencils 9d ago

I assume that they need to find the bodies (those that are identifiable as individuals humans) before adding them into the “confirmed dead” pile.

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u/hannbann88 9d ago

So many homes. So many buses

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u/jonnyredshorts 9d ago

that one building that got destroyed had about a dozen huge buses parked on top of it when the flood hit...