Overview
- An ice‑and‑rock collapse on Aug. 26 sent a fast-moving surge of water, mud and debris down the Bhotekoshi–Trishuli river corridors and destroyed villages, roads and hydropower infrastructure.
- Rescue operations have entered their second week with priority searches at multiple hydropower tunnels where officials say hundreds of workers remain unaccounted for and some survivors have been pulled out days later.
- Authorities report roughly 1,385 confirmed dead across Nepal and Tibet and more than 5,500 people missing, with recovery efforts hampered by washed‑out roads, unstable terrain and bad weather.
- Nepal Police have begun collecting DNA from relatives and have conducted mass burials of unidentified remains to manage overflowing morgues while planning longer‑term identification efforts.
- The United Nations has launched a roughly $50 million appeal for 84,000 people as Nepal moves from immediate rescue toward large‑scale relief, reconstruction planning and requests for international climate finance and monitoring support.