Nepal Floods Kill Over 1,200 as Families Hold Symbolic Funerals

In early September 2026, catastrophic flash floods and glacier collapse in Nepal and Tibet killed more than 1,200 people, with thousands still missing. Families of the missing have begun holding symbolic funerals, burning effigies in place of bodies, as hopes fade. The disaster also triggered a wave of misinformation online, including fabricated videos and AI-generated images falsely depicting the cause or devastation, which fact-checkers have debunked.