30/08/2026 – 20:51In northern Nepal, people living ‘under constant fear’ amid fresh flooding fears
Reporting from outside a military base in the northern Nepali town of Bidur, which is serving as the main rescue hub, FRANCE 24’s Shahzaib Wallah says heavy rains in recent days have increased river water levels in northern Nepal, triggering fears of another flood. “The population in northern Nepal is living under constant fear,” he explains.
30/08/2026 – 18:17How students at one Nepali school were saved by a lunch break
Children attending a school in Dhading, one of the areas in Nepal worst hit by the floods, managed to survive the disaster since they happened to leave their classrooms for their lunch break. “The teachers said, ‘There is a flood and you should leave bags and tiffins,’” said Lakshmi Shrestha, the mother of a student attending the school, told AP on Sunday. “That’s how they managed to survive.” Shrestha was among mothers and children who began to return to their school on Sunday to find the kids’ belongings and see what could be salvaged. The majority of the children at the school appeared to have survived the floods, the families said. Thick brown and gray mud coated the surfaces of school benches, walls and notebooks while the school’s courtyard was filled with sediment. Lines on the walls showed how high the water rapidly rose. Mud covers the floor of a classroom at the Shree Bagheswori Madhyamik School in Galchhi, Dhading district, August 30, 2026. (Photo: Niranjan Shrestha, AP)A pile of small mud-caked backpacks, some with colorful key chains, were on the benches and floors, waiting to be claimed.A student searches for her school bag from a pile extracted from the mud at the Shree Bagheswori Madhyamik School in Galchhi, Dhading district, on Augus 30, 2026. (Photo: Niranjan Shrestha, AP)
30/08/2026 – 15:45Around 85 US nationals remain missing after Nepal flood, State Department says
Around 85 Americans remain missing after the devastating Himalayan flood, according to the US State Department.State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott told ABC talk show “This Week” that nine Americans have been evacuated and that he was unaware of any US nationals dying in the disaster.”The remoteness of this location makes getting reliable information difficult. But our dedication remains, our commitment remains,” Pigott said.
30/08/2026 – 15:29Nepal death toll rises to 781, disaster authority says
Nepal flood death toll rises to 781, with 2,502 missing, says the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA).Chinese state media earlier confirmed 16 dead in Tibet and 546 people missing following Wednesday’s disaster, taking the overall toll to 797 dead and 3,048 unaccounted for.
30/08/2026 – 13:45’Everything we had built is gone’: Residents in shock after devastating floods
A devastating flood has left a riverside village in ruins, with a wave more than six metres high sweeping through a busy commercial area within minutes and burying shops and homes under mud and debris. Residents have returned to salvage what they can from properties where years of investment and belongings were destroyed. With more than 93,000 people severely affected, authorities have issued fresh evacuation warnings as rising river levels hamper rescue efforts.
30/08/2026 – 13:11Nepal begins mass burials as flood death toll surpasses 750
Nepal said Sunday it had begun burying some of the hundreds of bodies recovered after devastating floods, after taking DNA samples and marking them so families can later retrieve them.The dead are traditionally cremated on funeral pyres in Hindu-majority Nepal, so the burials are viewed as long-term storage until families can retrieve them.Foreign Secretary Amrit Bahadur Rai told reporters that all those buried were carefully recorded, but also appealed for international support, saying Nepal needed “more than a thousand” freezer units to store bodies.The announcement of the burials came as Nepal’s disaster ministry increased its toll again on Sunday to 752 bodies recovered and 2,502 people missing.
30/08/2026 – 12:13Thousands still missing as death toll rises
Nepalese authorities announced on Sunday that the provisional death toll from the devastating floods had risen to more than 730, with nearly 2,500 people still missing.Among the thousands of people missing is the husband of a 22-year-old woman, who is still waiting for him to return. Like tens of thousands of Nepalese people in recent days, she went to one of the country’s medical centres to find out whether her husband was among those whose bodies had been recovered in recent days.
30/08/2026 – 11:35Rising water levels hamper rescue efforts
Rescue and relief efforts in Nepal and Tibet have been hampered this Sunday by heavy rain and rising river levels. The latest figures following Wednesday’s flash floods put the death toll at 750, while more than 3,000 people remain missing. Nepal’s disaster authorities are urging rescue teams to “exercise caution”, warning that bad weather, swollen rivers and the threat of further flooding could hamper operations. Shazab Wahlah reports from the town of Bidur.
30/08/2026 – 08:55Nepal warns of more possible floods as communities grapple with devastation
Authorities in Nepal are warning of possible fresh flooding on Sunday and urged residents in flood-affected districts to remain on high alert after water levels rose in the Bhotekoshi River.Flood warning notices were sent to people’s phones throughout Sunday morning as rescue crews worked to clear a major highway connecting Kathmandu to one of the areas worst hit by Wednesday’s catastrophic floods.In the town of Galchhi, a group of residents sought higher ground on a nearby bridge and watched as the river roared by. People pointed to enormous rocks washed downriver during the earlier floods, as others standing on a suspension bridge over the water were warned off with whistles.Along the river, entire homes, vehicles and farm tractors could be seen jutting from the thick gray-brown sediment that enveloped entire villages in the worst-hit flood areas. Rice terraces along the riverside had experienced landslides, dropping parts of their field into the river.
30/08/2026 – 08:12Scenes of destruction in Nepal in the aftermath of Wednesday’s deadly floods
A drone view shows a man walking next to damaged buildings and houses covered in mud near the Likhu River following deadly flash floods and mudslides, in Devighat, Nuwakot district, Nepal, August 30, 2026. @Athit Perawongmetha, ReutersA woman walks out from a damaged house following deadly flash floods and mudslides, in Devighat, Nuwakot district, Nepal, August 30, 2026. @Athit Perawongmetha, ReutersSunita Chitrakar, 40, reacts as she holds up her chickens after rescuing them from her house, following deadly flash floods and mudslides, in Devighat, Nuwakot district, Nepal, August 30, 2026. @Athit Perawongmetha, ReutersA drone view of the aftermath of flash flooding along the Trishuli river amidst fresh water surge warning in the Trishuli Bazaar area of Nuwakot district, Nepal, Sunday, August 30, 2026. @Rajesh Kumar Singh, AP A resident walks across a bridge at the swollen Trishuli river in Galchhi, Dhading District, Nepal, Sunday, August 30, 2026. @Niranjan Shrestha, APAn army soldier carries a person who was evacuated from an area affected by flash floods and a mudslide, at the Maithili Barrack, an army training center, in Trishuli, Nuwakot district, Nepal, August 30, 2026. @Francis Mascarenhas, Reuters
30/08/2026 – 07:29Rescuers moved after new lake forms in mudslide-hit area of Tibet, Chinese state media reports
Chinese rescuers near the Tibet border port that was hit by a deadly mudslide were “moved to a safe location” Sunday, after a new lake was formed by a landslide, state media reported. “On the evening of Aug 29, monitoring drones deployed in the area detected a landslide on a mountainside 2.8 kilometers downstream from the Purepuqiang Tsangpo barrier lake,” the state broadcaster said, referring to a drained lake that had in previous days threatened rescue operations.”The landslide formed a new barrier and a new barrier lake is now forming,” CCTV said, adding that rescue personnel near the Gyirong border port had been moved to safer areas.
30/08/2026 – 07:17Rain, rising rivers hamper Nepal tunnel rescue
Nepali rescuers seeking to reach hydropower workers believed trapped in tunnels swamped by flood debris were hampered Sunday by heavy overnight rain and rising river waters.Nepal’s government says more than 100 workers may still be alive and trapped inside multiple tunnels at hydropower projects, with key rescue efforts focused on the Trishuli 3A and 3B sites.They are among 933 hydropower workers missing since a wall of mud and debris swept down on Wednesday morning, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority.At Trishuli 3A, army rescue teams using drills broke through Saturday evening into the upper part of a mud-swamped tunnel and began pumping air and sending a camera inside.But overnight rain and rising river waters hampered efforts at that site.”Heavy rainfall after around 2:00 am (2015 GMT) caused the water level in the river to rise, and also fill in the excavation area,” the Nepal Army said Sunday morning, as rescue efforts entered their fifth day.Photographs shared by the disaster office showed workers wading through churned mud and navigating vast boulders left by the floods.
30/08/2026 – 06:56China identifies countries of foreign nationals missing
China on Sunday said 261 foreign nationals from 23 countries were missing on the Tibetan side of a border crossing with Nepal following a mudslide which tore through the Himalayan region, while the death toll in ?Tibet has ?reached 16 people.Officials from China’s Tibet Autonomous Region said at a press conference ?that the highest number of missing foreigners was from Nepal at 104, while 49 Indian, 33 Latvian, 18 American and 15 British citizens were also unaccounted ?for. They said authorities in Beijing have notified foreign missions.The nationality breakdown was the first ?from the Chinese side since the collapse of a glacier on Wednesday unleashed a torrent of ice, rock, mud and debris down Himalayan rivers.
30/08/2026 – 06:55Nepal flood death toll rises to 750, disaster authority says
Devastating floods near the border with China killed at least 734 people in Nepal and 2,498 remain missing, its disaster authority said Sunday, as rescue efforts entered a fifth day. Chinese state media had earlier confirmed 16 dead in Tibet and 546 people missing following Wednesday’s disaster. That takes the overall toll to 750 dead and 3,044 missing.