More than 5,600 people are still missing following the catastrophic flash floods in Nepal. The board in the photograph is covered with pictures of some of the missing in Devighat. Sameer Shrestha/Anadolu/via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sameer Shrestha/Anadolu/via Getty Images “There’s nothing left there,” says Shushma Bhusal, the regional lead for the International
When a 21-member Chinese rescue team reached Gyirong on 28 August, one rescuer told Reuters: “As far as the eye could see, there was nothing but ruins.” The crossing had only recently recovered from another major flood. In July 2025, flooding shut Rasuwagadhi for nearly six months. It reopened on 1 January after China built
“I still have a 50% hope that he is alive because there is an oxygen system inside,” Sita Pandey, whose husband was working in the plant when the floods hit, told Nepalese daily Kantipur. Nepal relies heavily on hydropower and has spent years developing the projects along its mountainous river systems. At least 11 projects
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
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
This destructive path continues westwards along with the swelled river, before heading southwards. Satellite images also show the formation of a barrier lake at the base of the landslide’s path, which Chinese authorities have warned poses a major risk of further flooding and has hampered rescue efforts. Dr Argha Banerjee, a glaciologist at the Indian
