Nepal has closed all of its Himalayan peaks, including Mount Everest, this climbing season because of fears of coronavirus outbreak, a government minister said on Friday.
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The death toll in flooding in Nepal has risen to at least 43 people, while 24 others have gone missing after heavy rains triggered floods and landslides across the country, officials said on Sunday.
Two Indian climbers on Nepal’s Mount Kanchenjunga fell sick and died during attempts to rescue them while a Chilean climber is missing, an expedition organiser said on Thursday.
Nobukazu Kuriki was found dead at Camp 3, at 7,200 metres above sea level, said Ram Prasad Sapkota, a spokesman for Nepal’s Department of Tourism.
The man was among a group of villagers who tried to chase away a herd of four wild elephants in the village of Bhadrapur in the country’s south-east, said senior police officer Bishnu KC.
It said that the situation had caused the people living in the region to rush from Nepal to India and Bangladesh.
Some 35 people were still missing and 39 injured as emergency workers scrambled to supply relief to areas devastated by the floods.
Bhim Bahadur Bani, a local police officer, said that the girl and her mother kept the door