Tibetan glacial lake drainage triggered deadly flood in Nepal, climate body says

ICIMOD says satellite images showed the flood began from a lake outburst north of the Langtang Himal range.

The deadly flood in Nepal’s Bhote Koshi River that killed at least nine people and left more than two dozen missing this week was triggered by the draining of a supraglacial lake in the Tibet region of China, a regional climate monitoring body said on Wednesday.