Foreign Minister Khanal calls for stronger Himalayan disaster preparedness as India continues relief assistance to flood-hit Nepal.

Rescuers raced Monday to free hundreds of workers believed to be trapped in tunnels at hydropower sites that were buried in mud by catastrophic flooding on the Nepal-China border, as the death toll climbed and increasingly desperate families searched for missing loved ones.

Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases after deadly floods in the country killed more than a thousand people and left even more missing.

Flash floods caused by a glacier collapse along the Nepal-China border have killed hundreds and caused widespread destruction

Rescuers pull two people from a hydropower tunnel more than a week after a massive flash flood devastated the Nepal-China border.

China on Thursday said long-term global warming has destabilised Himalayan glaciers and triggered the recent floods in Nepal as Beijing pledges support for relief efforts

Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Zhang Maoming (left) and Nepali Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal Photo: official website of the Chinese Embassy in Nepal. Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Zha

By Gopal Sharma, Sarita Chaganti Singh, Ethan Wang and Liz Lee KATHMANDU/BEIJING, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Hopes of finding more survivors among thousands still missing in Nepal were fading on Wednesday, but authorities believed that dozens of workers trapped in the tunnels of hydropower projects hit by the Himalayan catastrophe could still be alive.