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First reported 10 September 2026 · latest 12 October 2026 · 13 reports from 8 outlets
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Six weeks after Nepal’s floods and landslides, thousands of families are still missing homes, income and school access as aid continues for survivors and isolated villages.
Facebook Twitter Print Email Six weeks after Nepal s deadly flooding disaster, communities are still struggling to rebuild their lives, but they will need sustained help as global warming increases the risk of another Himalayan catastrophe, the UN Children s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday. At least 1,400 people were killed, including 84 children, and nearly 5,300 people are still missing, after a mountain of glacial ice and rock collapsed into the Bhotekoshi, Upper Trishuli and Narayani-Gandak rivers in late August, unleashing a massive torrent that washed away bridges and homes. In an update from Kathmandu, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder highlighted the traumatic experience of 16-year-old Sahara, who he met this week at a technical training supported by the agency.
Ambiguous loss is also a real risk factor for what we call complicated grief, a longer, more psychologically difficult kind of mourning, with a higher risk of depression and anxiety. With 6,145 people still missing in Nepal and only a fraction of recovered remains identified, that state of unresolved uncertainty isn t abstract. It s the present condition of thousands of families right now.
At the time of writing, over 1,450 people are confirmed dead and more than 8,000 remain missing, with only a fraction of bodies identified and returned to their families. Nepal s National Child Rights Council and Save the Children have reported that over 1,000 children are in temporary shelters without any parents, many of whom are dead or missing. Ranjeeta Silwal explains how Nepal s floods have put women and girls at greater risk While temporary shelters can be life-saving, if they aren t designed with gender protection considerations from the outset, they can create new risks associated with overcrowding, lack of privacy, separation from family and community support networks, and limited access to confidential mechanisms for reporting violence.
Given the scale of damage and loss, families say compensation is desperately needed. Nepal's latest assessment counts 7,570 private buildings damaged or destroyed, home to nearly 33,000 people based on census data. The BBC visited Lawat's village Betrawati just days after the disaster, once the roads to the district of Rasuwa had been cleared.
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, said.
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It is the same absence now facing thousands of households across Nepal, after catastrophic floods swept away entire communities. On August 26, floods and landslides tore down the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli river valleys in Nepal s Rasuwa district, killing well over a thousand people and leaving thousands more missing, one of the deadliest natural disasters in the country s recent history. Kohrt has spent nearly 25 years in Nepal, long enough to watch the country move through this same unresolved grief again and again, first during that war, then after a devastating earthquake, and now, once more, before a wall of missing-persons photographs at Kathmandu s Teaching Hospital.
Ambiguous loss is also a real risk factor for what we call complicated grief, a longer, more psychologically difficult kind of mourning, with a higher risk of depression and anxiety. With 6,145 people still missing in Nepal and only a fraction of recovered remains identified, that state of unresolved uncertainty isn t abstract. It s the present condition of thousands of families right now.
With 6,145 people still missing in Nepal and only a fraction of recovered remains identified, that state of unresolved uncertainty isn t abstract. It s the present condition of thousands of families right now. IPS asked Kohrt how Nepal has faced this same experience before.
I remember how hard it was grieving without having seen his body. That pales in comparison to the ambiguous loss thousands of families in Nepal are experiencing as the search for bodies continues. But it s something that comes up for me when I talk to grieving families and hear their stories.
Videos on social media show houses and sheds being swept away by the swollen river flowing between mountains. The river merges into the Trishuli River, where a glacier collapse caused a catastrophic flood in August that killed 1,457 people, with thousands still missing. "We have asked villagers living along the river banks downstream to evacuate and remain safe," said Dharmendra Kumar Mishra, Gorkha district's most senior bureaucrat.
Videos on social media show houses and sheds being swept away by the swollen river flowing between mountains. The river merges into the Trishuli River, where a glacier collapse caused a catastrophic flood in August that killed 1,457 people, with thousands still missing. "We have asked villagers living along the river banks downstream to evacuate and remain safe," said Dharmendra Kumar Mishra, Gorkha district's most senior bureaucrat.
The flooded river is rising and has washed away a highway bridge connecting two districts, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority said. The army rescued six people from Jagat who were facing the risk of a landslide, Prime Minister Balendra Shah said in a social media post. Another 18 workers at the hydro-electric project, whose camp was damaged, escaped to safety, said Dharam Raj Uprety, chief of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority.
Another 18 workers at the hydro-electric project, whose camp was damaged, escaped to safety, said Dharam Raj Uprety, chief of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority. Nepal has ended the search-and-rescue operation for the more than 5,000 people still missing after the devastating August flood. National disaster authorities alerted people living along the river in the Gorkha, Tanahun, Chitwan, East Nawalparasi and West Nawalparasi districts about the flood.
Facebook Twitter Print Email Six weeks after Nepal s deadly flooding disaster, communities are still struggling to rebuild their lives, but they will need sustained help as global warming increases the risk of another Himalayan catastrophe, the UN Children s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday. At least 1,400 people were killed, including 84 children, and nearly 5,300 people are still missing, after a mountain of glacial ice and rock collapsed into the Bhotekoshi, Upper Trishuli and Narayani-Gandak rivers in late August, unleashing a massive torrent that washed away bridges and homes. In an update from Kathmandu, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder highlighted the traumatic experience of 16-year-old Sahara, who he met this week at a technical training supported by the agency.
Facebook Twitter Print Email Six weeks after Nepal s deadly flooding disaster, communities are still struggling to rebuild their lives, but they will need sustained help as global warming increases the risk of another Himalayan catastrophe, the UN Children s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday. At least 1,400 people were killed, including 84 children, and nearly 5,300 people are still missing, after a mountain of glacial ice and rock collapsed into the Bhotekoshi, Upper Trishuli and Narayani-Gandak rivers in late August, unleashing a massive torrent that washed away bridges and homes. In an update from Kathmandu, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder highlighted the traumatic experience of 16-year-old Sahara, who he met this week at a technical training supported by the agency.
Facebook Twitter Print Email Six weeks after Nepal s deadly flooding disaster, communities are still struggling to rebuild their lives, but they will need sustained help as global warming increases the risk of another Himalayan catastrophe, the UN Children s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday. At least 1,400 people were killed, including 84 children, and nearly 5,300 people are still missing, after a mountain of glacial ice and rock collapsed into the Bhotekoshi, Upper Trishuli and Narayani-Gandak rivers in late August, unleashing a massive torrent that washed away bridges and homes. In an update from Kathmandu, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder highlighted the traumatic experience of 16-year-old Sahara, who he met this week at a technical training supported by the agency.
Nepal search for missing after flash floods officially ends, with nearly 5,300 people still unaccounted for. The families of thousands of people who remain missing in Nepal weeks after catastrophic floods devastated the country have expressed mixed feelings after the government said this week that it is stopping the search for victims.
Nepal search for missing after flash floods officially ends, with nearly 5,300 people still unaccounted for. The families of thousands of people who remain missing in Nepal weeks after catastrophic floods devastated the country have expressed mixed feelings after the government said this week that it is stopping the search for victims. The office of Prime Minister Balendra Shah decided on Monday that search and rescue operations for victims of the Aug.
Instead, authorities will concentrate on rehabilitation and reconstruction, including restoring roads and bridges cut off by floods, particularly in remote areas where damaged infrastructure has made aid deliveries difficult. Rescuers have so far recovered the bodies of at least 1,455 people, but 5,285 others remain missing, including hundreds of foreign nationals. Two weeks ago, Global Affairs Canada told CBC News that it was aware of 29 Canadians and permanent residents in Nepal and the Tibet autonomous region whose whereabouts and well-being after the flash floods have not yet been confirmed, but cautioned that the number could fluctuate based on new information.
Instead, authorities will concentrate on rehabilitation and reconstruction, including restoring roads and bridges cut off by floods, particularly in remote areas where damaged infrastructure has made aid deliveries difficult. Rescuers have so far recovered the bodies of at least 1,455 people, but 5,285 others remain missing, including hundreds of foreign nationals. Two weeks ago, Global Affairs Canada told CBC News that it was aware of 29 Canadians and permanent residents in Nepal and the Tibet autonomous region whose whereabouts and well-being after the flash floods have not yet been confirmed, but cautioned that the number could fluctuate based on new information.
Instead, authorities will concentrate on rehabilitation and reconstruction, including restoring roads and bridges cut off by floods, particularly in remote areas where damaged infrastructure has made aid deliveries difficult. Rescuers have so far recovered the bodies of at least 1,455 people, but 5,285 others remain missing, including hundreds of foreign nationals. Two weeks ago, Global Affairs Canada told CBC News that it was aware of 29 Canadians and permanent residents in Nepal and the Tibet autonomous region whose whereabouts and well-being after the flash floods have not yet been confirmed, but cautioned that the number could fluctuate based on new information.
Rescuers have so far recovered the bodies of at least 1,455 people, but 5,285 others remain missing, including hundreds of foreign nationals. Two weeks ago, Global Affairs Canada told CBC News that it was aware of 29 Canadians and permanent residents in Nepal and the Tibet autonomous region whose whereabouts and well-being after the flash floods have not yet been confirmed, but cautioned that the number could fluctuate based on new information. CBC News has requested an update from the department, but did not immediately hear back.
CBC News has requested an update from the department, but did not immediately hear back. Hopes for finding survivors were briefly revived after two Nepalese workers were rescued from an underground tunnel at the Trishuli hydropower project on Sept. 4, and again two days later when rescuers found a Chinese man at the same location.
4, and again two days later when rescuers found a Chinese man at the same location. 2 more people found alive 10 days after devastating Nepal floods Families of victims have held protests and vigils in Nepal, calling for search efforts to be improved. "I am so angry at the government for giving up on search and rescue with thousands of people still missing.
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