Chinese national Guan Daoxuan’s wife was working on a highway project in Nepal near the Gyirong border checkpoint when disaster struck.
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04 Sep 2026 09:57AM
KATHMANDU: The last time Chinese national Guan Daoxuan spoke to his wife was the night before deadly flash floods and landslides struck communities along the Nepal-Tibet border.A day later, he could no longer reach her.“We were just talking about ordinary things at home,” Guan told CNA. “But the next day, after I learned about the mudslide, I tried contacting her again. There was no response.”His wife, Chinese national Li Lisha, 37, was working on a highway project in Nepal near the Gyirong border checkpoint when disaster struck.Gyirong is a key Belt and Road corridor linking China and Nepal, with several Chinese infrastructure projects operating across the border. Many of those missing were working at these sites.Guan had visited the project site before and initially believed its location on relatively high ground might have spared it from the worst of the flooding.But as his calls continued to go unanswered, the 38-year-old realised “something was seriously wrong”.
