It was on Wednesday that water levels rose rapidly in rivers in the border area between Nepal and Tibet. More than 390 people have died, thousands are still missing, and infrastructure, water pipes and villages have been destroyed.
499 people living in the area and 555 tourists who had been stranded in Tibet have been evacuated from the disaster-stricken area, state-run Chinese CCTV reported on Friday. It is not clear which countries the tourists are from.
Efforts are underway to try to find and rescue the missing people.
Chinese authorities are warning that there is a "high risk" that an artificial lake formed after the landslide will burst.
“According to forecasts, inflow into the lake could reach around three million cubic metres in the next three days if the rain continues, increasing the risk of it bursting. This would mean water flowing downstream and possibly causing further damage,” reports the state-run Xinhua news agency.
