1 of 2 | Relatives of victims and missing people react outside the morgue of the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, in Kathmandu, Nepal. According to National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, more than 600 people were killed and hundreds remain missing across northern Nepal after a glacial collapse and avalanche triggered flash floods and mudslides along the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli river valleys near the Nepal-Tibet border. Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA
Aug. 29 (UPI) -- The lake that threatened to overflow in the flood-ravaged area of Nepal is now empty, causing less anxiety of more flash flooding, but coming rains could threaten the area again.
The death toll is now at 626, with more than 3,000 people missing, the Nepalese disaster relief agency reported Saturday.
There are still 90 Americans missing, the U.S. State Department said, adding that it is "not aware" of any American deaths, The New York Times reported. The United States is also sending $500,000 for emergency efforts in Nepal, the department said.
"This is a hard area to reach at the best of times, made even more so given this catastrophe," State Department Spokesperson Tommy Piggott said. "But we're committed to getting that humanitarian assistance in."
