Rashomon. China reports a “Nepal mudslide.” Nepal says it came from Tibet — and accuses China of failing to give warning.
Real-time footage shows the mountain flood reaching Gyirong Port at 10:30 a.m. China time — 8:15 a.m. Nepal time (UTC+5:45).
Nepal was not hit until 45
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Rashomon. China reports a “Nepal mudslide.” Nepal says it came from Tibet — and accuses China of failing to give warning.
Real-time footage shows the mountain flood reaching Gyirong Port at 10:30 a.m. China time — 8:15 a.m. Nepal time (UTC+5:45).
Nepal was not hit until 45 minutes later. Residents of Rasuwa District were the ones who reported that something terrible had happened. The precious window for evacuation was already gone.
How does a “Nepal mudslide” that China says occurred at 11:15 China time inundate Gyirong at 10:30?
So when did Chinese officials notify Nepal?
Nepal: China did not notify them until 1:35 p.m. (UTC+5:45).
They only reported it after people were already dead. Nepal has no internet ban.
Disaster survivors uploaded many videos.
The flood had already receded by a hundred meters. Bodies coated in gray mud lay on the slopes on both sides.
Some died clutching tree trunks, bodies stiff. One scene is unbearable: rescuers lifted a man by both arms — the lower half of his body was gone, intestines hanging, no blood left to flow. This was not death by drowning alone.
China says it came from Nepal, because the ice collapse occurred in uninhabited territory on the other side.
Nepal says the disaster came from China’s failure to warn, because the upstream area is Gyirong in Tibet.
China has a record. Last year the same river flooded. China did the same thing: it did not warn Nepal of the coming disaster. It was later confirmed to have been caused by a glacial lake outburst in Tibet.
So this time Nepal was alert. After receiving China’s late notice, it immediately issued a nationwide alert and left a timestamp:
“Citing information received from the Chinese side at 1:35 p.m., the lake that had formed on the Tibet side has completely dried up. All risk has shifted to the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli river areas.”
Nepal’s latest report: 165 dead, 800 missing. China’s figures remain those of yesterday: 3 dead, 265 missing.
With 45 more minutes to evacuate, Nepal could have saved many lives.
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