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Nepal holds a day of mourning and rescue efforts continue after flash floods kill 1,300

Rescue efforts have increasingly focused on 12 hydropower projects, where about 900 workers are missing and roughly 500 are believed to be trapped in various tunnels, authorities said.

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00:00Nepal held a day of mourning on Monday for victims of devastating floods that struck
00:04on August 26. It was the 13th day since the disaster which killed more than 1,300 people
00:11in Nepal and Tibet and left around 5,000 missing according to Nepal's Disaster Management Agency.
00:18Families carried out mourning rituals while some performed symbolic funerals for relatives whose
00:23bodies had not been found. Search efforts continued particularly at 12 hydropower projects
00:29where authorities said around 900 workers were missing and roughly 500 were believed trapped in tunnels.
00:37Specialist teams from India, China, South Korea and the United States joined the search through debris,
00:43damaged structures and tunnels. Some rescue experts described the operation as an unprecedented
00:48challenge while the Nepal army said rescuers were continuing searches on the ground by air and inside tunnels.
00:59So, we are going to be in the first place where we can see the
01:00national rescue of the country. We are going to be in the first place where we can continue to
01:02explore the search for the country. We are going to be in the first place where the

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