As of Thursday afternoon, three people were confirmed dead and 558 missing on the Chinese side, with 359 dead and at least 667 missing in Nepal.
“Nearly 100” Chinese nationals were missing on the Nepalese side, foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said in Beijing on Thursday. The Chinese embassy in Nepal was working with local authorities to further verify the information, he added.
Those missing on the Chinese side include 260 foreign nationals, according to an official update on Thursday morning from Shigatse, the city in China’s Tibet autonomous region that administers the Gyirong border checkpoint.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang arrived at the checkpoint on Thursday afternoon to direct disaster relief efforts and visit emergency responders.
The Nepal Tourism Board said that among the missing from the disaster were 540 foreign nationals from more than two dozen countries.
