More than 20 people are thought to be missing or unaccounted for after flash flooding swept through parts of the Grand Canyon. It hit at around 14:30 local time (22:30 BST) on Saturday in Bright Angel Canyon and Phantom Ranch area, according to the National Park Service (NPS). Sixty-two people have so far been airlifted
Helicopters and coastguard boats have been dispatched to the scene, while ambulances have been stationed on the beach ready to receive rescued passengers. Üstel wrote on social media that the “priority right now is human life”, adding that security forces, rescue teams and health officials were all on the scene. He added the disaster will
Mukti Patel has huddled with family and friends at her parents’ Richmond, Virginia, home since her dad, sister and two other relatives went missing in the catastrophic flash floods along the Nepal-China border. She knows the hotel they were staying in was swept away. But as she shared memories of them on Friday, she caught
The BBC’s North America Correspondent Helena Humphrey visited the Isha Foundation, a non-profit spiritual organisation in McMinnville, Tennessee, that lost contact with 77 trek participants on the China-Nepal border. The group, made up of people from several countries, was travelling in the region that was hit by the massive flash-flood of 26 August. Humphrey spoke
The film, which features a star-studded cast of Guy Pearce, Margaret Qualley and Josh Brolin, is set in the 2030s, where only those immune from a deadly flu remain alive. It immediately draw parallels with the Covid pandemic with its aerial shots of abandoned cities and Hig’s constant search for resources like food and medicine.
“She kept saying the weather was good,” he says. “She said it was rather warm, it was raining sometimes.” The next morning, 26 August, Subhrasree left her hotel shortly after 7am. Bhattacharya spoke to her on the phone, and the two continued messaging afterwards. Around an hour later, she told him the Nepal immigration formalities
