Rescuers in Nepal and China were still battling Saturday (August 29, 2026) to locate thousands of people missing days after a deadly, tsunami-like wall of water and debris swept through the Himalayan region, engulfing villages.
Meanwhile, Nepal’s Foreign Minister has told Reuters that the country needs foreign help in specialised and technical areas in which it does not have expertise in the aftermath of the devastating floods.
The number of missing soared past 2,400 on Friday (August 28, 2026) as emergency teams said they had recovered 586 bodies — with some of the dead swept downstream as far away as India. The new figures came as Nepal’s disaster authority added 933 hydropower workers to a missing persons list already including trekkers and pilgrims to Tibet’s sacred Mount Kailash.
The US Geological Survey said the disaster -- the deadliest for Nepal since a 2015 earthquake — was caused by a glacial collapse that triggered a vast flow of icy debris.
