Overview
- Heavy monsoon-driven floods and landslides damaged tunnels and roads, leaving people trapped in collapsed or flooded infrastructure.
- After more than a week of rescue work, teams have pulled several survivors from ruined tunnels, marking the latest progress in the effort to reach entombed people.
- Search-and-rescue and recovery operations are ongoing across affected areas and authorities have not yet released a full casualty or missing-persons tally.
- Family members have been coming to morgues in Kathmandu to check for loved ones, a scene reported on the ground by The Sydney Morning Herald and its correspondent Zach Hope.
- Nepal’s steep terrain and broken access routes are slowing aid and clearance work, which means rescue teams will likely need more time to reach remote sites and to confirm the scale of damage.