A Himalayan border crossing between China and Nepal was obliterated by an ungodly landslide following torrential flooding across the region on Wednesday.
Video captured by security cameras perched on the mountainside show the horrifying moment when the wall of mud descended on the Gyirong Port facility, swallowing the six-story building whole as dozens of people run for their lives.
Within seconds of the mudslide’s arrival, the six-story Gyirong Port building is completely consumed by the muck. Authorities quickly declared a national emergency, as nearby roads, communication towers, and electrical infrastructure was likewise wiped out in the tragedy. (Warning: the footage is graphic.)
According to the latest news available from Reuters, at least 95 people have been killed, while hundreds remain missing.
On top of torrential monsoon rains over the last few weeks, sources interviewed by CNN suspect that an earthquake may be responsible for shearing off a chunk of glacier, which tumbled into a river valley, displacing Biblical volumes of water.
“What is hard to reconcile is the gargantuan volumes of water that we see in these, these absolutely horrific videos,” Daniel Shugar, a geologist at the University of California told CNN. According to Shugar and other expert sources, it could take weeks to establish the true cause of the disaster — an effort which will be made even harder by the apocalyptic conditions in the surrounding region.
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