{"id":522631,"date":"2026-08-28T10:55:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/?p=522631"},"modified":"2026-08-28T10:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:55:44","slug":"russian-tourist-says-she-narrowly-escaped-deadly-nepal-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/the-weather\/russian-tourist-says-she-narrowly-escaped-deadly-nepal-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian tourist says she narrowly escaped deadly Nepal floods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Russian tourist said she and her group <strong>narrowly escaped the devastating floods near the Nepal-China border<\/strong> after using a concrete staircase to reach higher ground as a massive wave swept through the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Katr\u00edn Kras said <strong>12 people<\/strong>, including eight foreigners and four Nepali nationals, were traveling on a bus near the border when the flood struck at around <strong>8:46 a.m.<\/strong> The group had stopped near a Nepalese immigration facility when the wave suddenly arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe only survived because our bus was next to a staircase,\u201d Kras said in a video message shared on social media. She explained that the group ran up the staircase and continued climbing to escape the rushing water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Kras, another bus carrying elderly passengers was also saved because the same staircase provided access to higher ground. She said that being just a few dozen meters farther or closer could have had a fatal outcome because the surrounding terrain offered little opportunity to escape the torrent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The group remained stranded in the area on August 26 and was evacuated the following day. Kras said communication was lost around <strong>1 p.m.<\/strong>, while helicopters began flying over the area roughly an hour after the flood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also shared footage showing the massive wave and the destruction left behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian tourist said she and her group narrowly escaped the devastating floods near the Nepal-China border after using a concrete staircase to reach higher ground as a massive wave swept through the area. Katr\u00edn Kras said 12 people, including eight foreigners and four Nepali nationals, were traveling on a bus near the border when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":522632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[41284],"tags":[611,17158],"class_list":["post-522631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-weather","tag-deultimominuto","tag-nepal"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2bXx","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/6a91895c59bf5b166e2ba9e9.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Edith B\u00e1ez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-11-at-11.09.56-AM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["The Weather"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/6a91895c59bf5b166e2ba9e9.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}