Nepal ends search and rescue after flood, focuses on rehabilitation

October 6, 2026 12:13 PM

Nepal ends search and rescue after flood, focuses on rehabilitation

Nepal has ended the search and rescue operation for those still missing after the devastating flood in August that killed at least 1,455 people, officials said on Monday. At least 5,285 people were still missing after the August 26 flood originating at Nepal’s border with China's Tibet region. Another 13,795 people were rescued. “We are moving from the search and rescue phase to the search and rehabilitation phase,” Phanindra Paudel, chief of the National Emergency Operation Centre, told...

Nepal must rebuild thousands of homes, no let up in search for missing

September 3, 2026 12:33 PM

Nepal must rebuild thousands of homes, no let up in search for missing

Nepal will have to rebuild around 20,000 houses in flood-ravaged areas, authorities said on Thursday, even as rescuers search for workers trapped in tunnels linked to hydropower projects and thousands remain missing after last week’s catastrophe. A glacier collapse on August 26 sent a deluge of ice, rock and mud sweeping through the impoverished nation's border region with China, wiping out settlements and villages and leaving few houses standing and undamaged. "Our preliminary estimates are...

Nepal flood rescue hopes dim as China restores access to Tibet disaster zone

September 2, 2026 6:17 PM

Nepal flood rescue hopes dim as China restores access to Tibet disaster zone

Hopes of finding more survivors among thousands still missing in Nepal were fading on Wednesday, but authorities believed that dozens of workers trapped in the tunnels of hydropower projects hit by the Himalayan catastrophe could still be alive.   A week after a glacier collapse in the Himalayas unleashed flash floods that devastated the mountainous nation, killing at least 1,114 people and leaving nearly 4,000 others missing, rescue operations were focused on the ruins of power plants where ...