Updated August 31, 2026 — 5:42am,first published 2:09pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA The family of an Australian woman thought to have been missing in the Nepalese floods said her survival was a “miracle” as they thanked the Australian government
For nearly an hour, he had no idea whether she was alive and kept calling her without success. Then the phone finally connected and Yunisha answered. “Finally, my daughter received my call and I couldn’t stop myself, broke out… two relatives that were with me also cried and hugged me,” he said. Yunisha appears tearful
Mukti Patel has huddled with family and friends at her parents’ Richmond, Virginia, home since her dad, sister and two other relatives went missing in the catastrophic flash floods along the Nepal-China border. She knows the hotel they were staying in was swept away. But as she shared memories of them on Friday, she caught
A 97-year-old woman pulled from flood debris in Nepal is recovering in hospital, according to her doctors. Guna Maya Bohara’s great-nephew, Dipak Bohara, has told BBC Nepali she looked like “a warrior” who had returned victorious from battle. The operation to pull Bohara out of the rubble of her care home took four hours. Bohara
The dramatic footage was almost impossible to miss. A torrent of water tearing through Gyirong Port, one of the main border crossings between Nepal and Tibet, sweeping away all in its path as hundreds of people fled for their lives. The scenes, captured by CCTV cameras, quickly spread on social media and onto screens around
“She kept saying the weather was good,” he says. “She said it was rather warm, it was raining sometimes.” The next morning, 26 August, Subhrasree left her hotel shortly after 7am. Bhattacharya spoke to her on the phone, and the two continued messaging afterwards. Around an hour later, she told him the Nepal immigration formalities
