Nepal-China glacier collapse kills 750 and leaves over 3,000 missing in Himalayan disaster

A glacier collapse in the Himalayas on August 26 unleashed a catastrophic mudslide across the Nepal-China border, killing 750 people and leaving more than 3,000 missing as of August 30, with the Red Cross estimating over 90,000 people affected. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Nepalese counterpart in a telephone call that it was their "most severe cross-border disaster" in recent years, requiring rescue operations of unprecedented complexity. China has explicitly linked the disaster to the effects of climate change.