Nepal Flood Death Toll Passes 500 as Troops Rescue 100 From Flooded Tunnel

Fact-check index: 88/100 — The article's core figures and events (500+ dead, 1,000+ then 1,500+ missing, ~100 rescued from the hydropower tunnel, suspended rescue operations, and the newly formed lake at the glacier-collapse site) are all directly supported by the cited France 24 pieces, with only the claim that operations explicitly 'resumed under high alert' being a reasonable but not explicitly stated synthesis.

• Death toll from the Nepal-Tibet flood has passed 500, more than a thousand still missing — Matches France 24's 'killed more than 500 people, with over a thousand still missing.'
• Toll rose from 469 reported earlier — Refers to the outlet's own prior article, not verifiable against the supplied source material.
• Nepali soldiers rescued around 100 survivors from a flooded hydropower tunnel where they'd been trapped since the flood — Matches France 24: 'Nepali soldiers rescued around 100 people trapped inside a flooded hydropower tunnel.'
• A separate dispatch put missing figure at more than 1,500, higher than the other count — Matches the tunnel-rescue France 24 article's 'more than 1,500 people still missing,' correctly noted as higher than the first article's 'over a thousand.'
• Rescue efforts briefly suspended over fears an overflowing landslide lake could unleash a fresh flood — Matches France 24: 'Rescue efforts were briefly suspended over fears that an overflowing landslide lake could trigger more flooding.'
• Rescue efforts resumed under high alert — Suspension is sourced, but neither article explicitly states operations 'resumed'; high-alert status is drawn from the third article about ongoing operations, making this a plausible but slightly inferential synthesis.
• Satellite imagery shows a new lake formed in the same spot where a glacier collapse triggered Wednesday's disaster — Matches France 24 video dispatch: 'Satellite imagery suggests the lake formed in the same area where a glacier collapse on Wednesday unleashed the deadly chain of events.'
• 'What to watch' framing about whether the lake bursts and whether authorities settle on one missing-persons count — This is the outlet's own forward-looking analysis/speculation, not a factual claim drawn from the cited sources.