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Catastrophic floods kill hundreds in Nepal and Tibet, with more than 1,300 missing

Rescue teams searched Thursday for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border, where a deadly torrent of water and mud several stories high swept through communities a day earlier following a glacier collapse.

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Summary based on reporting from CBS News, ABC News, PBS NewsHour and Global News.

Coverage at a glance

  • First observed by CurrentWire: CBS News · Aug 27, 2026 at 12:06 AM ET
  • Coverage span: 11h 11m
  • Coverage: 4 reports from 4 independent publications
  • Coverage growth: 1 → 4 publications in 15h 59m
Catastrophic floods kill hundreds in Nepal and Tibet, with more than 1,300 missing
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Source mix

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How coverage developed

  1. First report from CBS News

  2. Reported by Global News

  3. Reported by ABC News

  4. Reported by PBS NewsHour

  5. Story updateCBS News joined coverage

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  10. Story updateCoverage went from 1 to 4 sources

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Signal breakdown

CurrentWire ranked this story 67.8 of 100 in the snapshot this page was rendered from.

Freshness
20.4 of 35
Source authority
20 of 20
Coverage breadth
12.9 of 20
Geographic relevance
6.5 of 10
Story prominence
8 of 10
Velocity
0 of 5

Strongest signal: source authority, 20 of 20. How each signal is calculated.

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