August 29, 2026
An excavator (left) helps people to collect some of their belongings from their house in the aftermath of flash floods at Trishuli, in Nepal’s Nuwakot district on August 29, 2026. Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP.
Rescuers in Nepal and China were still battling Saturday to locate thousands of people missing days after a deadly, tsunami-like wall of water and debris swept through the Himalayan region, engulfing villages.
The number of missing soared close to 3,000 Saturday, latest figures from both countries showed, with 633 bodies recovered – and reports of some dead possibly swept downstream as far away as India.
In an area home to vast energy infrastructure projects, Nepal’s disaster authority added 933 hydropower workers to a missing persons list already including trekkers and pilgrims to Tibet’s sacred Mount Kailash.
