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Nepal and China have issued urgent warnings of secondary flooding risks as two lakes formed by debris from a catastrophic glacier collapse threaten to burst, potentially endangering ongoing rescue operations.
Nirmal Purja, the acclaimed mountaineer who scaled all 14 eight-thousand-metre peaks in record time and was immortalised in a Netflix documentary, has died in an avalanche on Broad Peak in northern Pakistan.
A search and rescue operation has been launched in Pakistan's Karakoram mountains after an avalanche on Broad Peak swept away 10 climbers, including celebrated Nepali alpinist Nirmal Purja and Pakistani climber Sohail Sakhi. Helicopter support has been mobilised.
Nepal's Prime Minister Balendra Shah has called for public calm following violent clashes between Hindu and Muslim communities in the country's southern regions, which have resulted in three fatalities and heightened tensions.