The tragedy in Nepal has caused more than 1,300 deaths.
55% confidence
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The claim is a lower bound ('more than 1,300'); the actual death toll by the session date was higher, around 1,400–1,451, so the speaker understates rather than overstates the deaths.
The original statement also cited 'more than 6,000 missing', but the sources found report missing/out-of-contact counts of 4,886 (5 September 2026) and 5,786 (20 September 2026) — below 6,000 — suggesting that part of the claim may be somewhat overstated.
The specific death-toll figures come from secondary aggregator sources citing Nepal's NDRRMA and Nepal Police; no primary official NDRRMA/Nepal Police publication was directly accessible within the search limits, and the numbers are based on a single independent source, so they are not fully corroborated.
The session date is 16 September 2026, but one source's most recent figure (1,451 dead / 5,786 missing) is dated 20 September 2026, i.e. after the session; the figure the MEP could have known (5 September) was 1,344 dead.
Sources
SecondaryNepal Disaster 2026 — Live Death Toll (citing NDRRMA and Nepal Police)The latest official toll, published 5 September: NDRRMA counts 1,344 confirmed dead, 4,886 missing or out of contact and 5,300 injured on the Nepal side; Nepal Police counted 1,342 at 08:00 the same morning. 13,013 people have been rescued, 324 of them foreign nationals.
SecondaryNepal Disaster 2026 — Official Casualty Statistics (NDRRMA/Nepal Police)Official 2026 Nepal flood figures from NDRRMA and Nepal Police: 1,451 dead, 5,786 missing, 13,784 rescued, 6,827 injured / 2,740 treated and 21,400+ security personnel deployed — with district-by-district breakdowns.
SecondaryCNN — Nepal-China flash floods live coverageHundreds of people are dead and over a thousand more remain missing after catastrophic flash flooding left a trail of destruction in the Nepal-China border region Wednesday.