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Emergency warnings weren’t enough to save Nepal’s flood-ravaged villages. An expert explains

By Prashidha Khatiwada, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology

A flash flood can transform a river within minutes. This is what communities near the Nepal-Tibet border witnessed on Wednesday.

A massive flash flood ripped through villages along the Bhote Koshi–Trishuli river system carrying mud, debris and fast-flowing water. It has claimed the lives of at least 469…

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