Nepal-China border floods kill more than 950, rescuers dig for trapped hydropower workers

Fact-check index: 72/100 — The core casualty and rescue details align with the France24 source, but the article adds framing (a shift from mass burials) and a speculative hypothesis about winter power supply that the source does not support.

• Death toll from Nepal-China border flooding has passed 950 — Matches France24 headline and lede ('flood deaths surpass 950 in Nepal and China').
• Rescuers are racing to reach hundreds of workers believed trapped in tunnels at buried hydropower sites — Directly matches source: 'Rescuers raced Monday to free hundreds of workers believed to be trapped in tunnels at hydropower sites that were buried in mud.'
• Rescue efforts have since shifted from mass burials to the buried hydropower tunnels — This 'shift' framing, linking to the earlier mass-burials story, is not stated anywhere in the France24 source, which only describes ongoing tunnel rescue efforts.
• Mud from the flooding buried hydropower sites, trapping an unknown number of workers — Source specifies 'hundreds of workers believed to be trapped,' not an unspecified/unknown number, so this slightly understates the source's own estimate.
• Families of the missing were searching for loved ones — Matches source: 'increasingly desperate families searched for missing loved ones.'
• Hypothesis that tunnel collapses could strain hydropower output into winter months — Explicitly labeled speculation by the article itself; source gives no information on affected plants, capacity, or seasonal demand impact.
• The report does not identify which plants were hit or how much capacity is affected — Accurate characterization — the brief France24 source indeed omits plant names and capacity figures.