China temporarily suspends rescue operations as the dammed lake upstream of Gyirong border begins to overflow, reported China's CCTV.
It comes after both Nepal and China warned of fresh risks of flooding as authorities scramble to respond to a catastrophe that has killed more than 469 people and left hundreds missing.
The Nepalese disaster authority said a lake created at the site of the flooding was at risk of a potentially disastrous breach.
China warned that water equivalent to 1,200 Olympic swimming pools is expected to flow into an already dammed lake on its side of the border over the next three days, creating a high risk of its banks bursting.
Basanta Raj Adhikari, the director of the Centre for Disaster Studies at the Tribhuvan University in Nepal, told the BBC that there was a risk that conditions worsen today or tomorrow, including landslides.
The situation on the ground has complicated rescue efforts, with at least 1,000 people still unaccounted for, including almost 650 foreigners and 33 British tourists swept up in Wednesday’s flooding caused by a glacier collapse.
The president of the Nepal Centre for Disaster Management said the disaster came at them like a “tsunami from the sky”.
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Key Points
- Nepal death toll jumps to 469
- China suspends rescue efforts amid new flood threat
- Rescuers scour Nepal flood debris as risk of fresh flooding grows
- Rescuers 'yet to reach worst-hit area in China'
- Bodies found 62 miles from disaster area
Buildings ‘wiped out like toothpicks'
07:53 , Namita SinghAround the world, relatives of those missing were desperate for information about their whereabouts. Sneha Sudhir was one of 10 women whose husbands had set out from Nepal on a trek to Tibet's Mount Kailash when the region was struck by disaster.
The men, all from northern Virginia, are among dozens of Americans missing. "Where are they?" Sudhir said tearfully from her home in Chantilly, Virginia, on Thursday.
Sudhir said the women were supporting each other and reaching`out to officials, politicians and friends and family in the United States and India, hoping for word.
"Everybody is taking turns in shedding their tears, wiping it off and getting back to work," she said.
President Donald Trump said the US had offered support to Nepal.
"Nobody's ever seen anything quite like that, where very powerful, strong, well-built buildings were wiped out like they were toothpicks. It's a terrible thing. We are sending aid and we've spoken to the leadership and we let them know anything they want, they'll have."
Lake formed by landslide on Nepal-Tibet border overflows, halting rescue work
07:52 , Namita SinghA lake formed by a landslide on the Nepal-China border started to overflow on Friday, putting at risk areas devastated by a flash flood two days ago and forcing a temporary halt to rescue efforts, authorities on both sides said.
Residents in Nepal's Rasuwa district, on the border with China's Tibet, were seen rushing up hillsides to escape any surge in the river level, according to a Reuters witness.
The risk of the lake bursting prompted all Chinese rescue personnel and vehicles to withdraw to stand by in a safe area, state broadcaster CCTV said on Friday. Authorities in Nepal have stopped rescue operations for the next 90 minutes, an army officer said.
China's Xi chairs Politburo meeting on Tibet mudslide rescue
07:40 , Namita SinghChina's Politburo met on Friday to direct rescue work after the catastrophic mudslide and flash flooding that struck areas along Nepal's border with China's Tibet, state media reported.
Authorities must "scientifically formulate search-and-rescue plans, make every effort to search for missing people from China and abroad," the meeting chaired by president Xi Jinping said, according to state news agency Xinhua.
The meeting said rescue work faced "extremely difficult challenges" and called for stronger monitoring of glacier lakes, landslide risks and barrier lakes, emergency aid to affected areas in Nepal, and closer international disaster cooperation.
Helicopter rescue efforts in Nepalese district halted
07:17 , Namita SinghHelicopter rescue operations in Nepalese district of Rusawa has been halted, with locals rushing up the hill, reported Reuters citing a witness.
It comes shortly after China's CCTV warned that a dammed lake upstream of the Gyirong border port has begun to overflow.
Nepal lake breaks banks, water level rising, district official says
07:13 , Namita SinghOfficials in Nepal's Rasuwa district have received a notice saying a lake has broken its banks, two days after a flash flood hit the region, Narendra Pariyar, the most senior bureaucrat of the district, said on Friday.
"We can see that the level of water in the river is rising," he said, adding that it is unclear how high the water level is at present.
In pictures: Rescue operations
07:00 , Jane Dalton
China suspends rescue efforts amid new flood threat
06:44 , Namita SinghChina has suspended rescue operations as the dammed lake upstream of Gyirong border begins to overflow, reported China's CCTV.
The state broadcaster earlier reported that the lake’s barrier was more than 10km (6 miles) from Gyirong Port, the border crossing with Nepal that was engulfed by mud and floodwater.
CCTV said the lake was at an elevation of 2,950 meters (9,680 feet), about 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) above Gyirong Port.
Nepal Army said that a team was sent to the border point to inspect the Bhotekoshi River amid the potential of more floods.
Video: Trump says US offers Nepal aid as dozens of Americans may be missing
06:25 , Namita SinghChina rushes to minimise risk from lakes formed by glacier debris near Nepal border
06:17 , Namita SinghChina is racing to reduce the risk of more flooding at the disaster-stricken border crossing linking its Tibet region to Nepal after hundreds were killed in a flash flood on Wednesday.
Nepal and China both warned on Thursday of fresh risks of flooding in the Himalayas, with debris dams which created two barrier lakes on either side of their border threatening to collapse.
Chinese authorities have mobilised an eight-member engineering team to conduct aerial surveys and 3D modelling of the barrier lake, according to state broadcaster CCTV on Friday.
One of the engineers, Chen Hanxiao, said challenges included difficult access to the site.
"After the glacier collapse created the lake, many isolated cliffs and steep cliffs appeared along it," Mr Chen told CCTV on Thursday evening.
Chen said the general approach to reducing the lake's threat is to excavate a drainage channel at a lower point of the dam but the width and depth of that channel needed calculations based on how fast the water will flow and how quickly the lake will fill.
Data from their survey found that the lake was about 150 metres long and 40-50 metres deep with a reservoir of 1.5-2 million cubic metres of water. Their next tasks were to monitor the lake and collect data from the lake floor, as well as weather monitoring in the coming days.
The Gyirong border port area has seen light to moderate rainfall which has loosened and destabilised soil and rock surrounding the precarious zone upstream. The rain is forecast to continue over the coming week.
China on Thursday warned that 3 million cubic meters of water — the equivalent of about 1,200 Olympic swimming pools — are expected to flow into the still-dammed lake over the next three days, creating a high risk of a breach, with peak flow expected around 1 September.
The formation of a barrier lake was captured in aerial footage by a Chinese rescue team shown by state broadcaster CGTN.
It showed masses of brown water accumulating in a basin with no visible outlet, that had already submerged bushes and trees and appeared to push against a barrier of debris and stones. Nearly 1,000 remain missing on both sides of the border, including as many as 540 foreigners from 31 countries, according to officials.
In pictures: Nepal reels from devastating floods that left at least 469 dead
06:09 , Namita Singh
Warming climate destabilises mountain rocks and ice, say experts
06:00 , Jane DaltonClimate change causes conditions that can destabilise high-mountain rock and ice, increasing the risk of disasters, scientists say.
While the exact cause of the disaster is still being analysed, scientists say it probably began with a massive ice-rock avalanche on the northern slopes of Nepal's Langtang Lirung peak into the Lhende Khola river on the Tibetan side.
"Climate change is generating conditions that can destabilise high-mountain rock and ice," said Simon Cox, chief scientist at the Mountains to Sea program at Earth Sciences New Zealand.
That in turn makes collapses and cascading hazards of the kind this week more frequent, he added.
He said warming could reduce ice on steep slopes, boost melt water, and change patterns of freezing, thawing and rainfall.
That can weaken mountainsides and make large collapses more likely in some spots, he added.
Nepal does not need foreign rescue help with flood, foreign ministry says
05:48 , Namita SinghNepal does not need help from other countries to conduct search and rescue operations after a devastating flash flood wrecked towns, its foreign ministry said on Friday.
"The offer for help is natural. Our security agencies are doing the search and rescue operation. For now we don’t require such help,” Lok Bahadur Chhetri, spokesperson for the foreign ministry said on Friday.
Government of India releases list of individuals rescued
05:34 , Namita SinghIndia's Ministry of External Affairs released the list of individuals rescued from Nepal. At least 63 Indian nationals working at Trishuli-I project in Nepal were saved, said MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal.
Update on Indian nationals rescued in Nepal.
— Randhir Jaiswal (@MEAIndia) August 27, 2026
Please see the names of 63 Indian nationals working at Trishuli-I project in Nepal who have been rescued:
Details below ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/NdXEwgZmYN
About 90 Americans unaccounted for after catastrophic floods hit Nepal and Tibet
05:32 , Namita SinghUS officials said about 90 US citizens remained unaccounted for Thursday, a day after catastrophic flash floods engulfed a border area of China and Nepal, killing hundreds of people.
A spiritual organisation said that 22 Americans associated with it were unaccounted for.
In a statement, the US State Department said it is not aware of any US deaths, but three Americans have been rescued.
Many of the missing were on a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash in Tibet, a sacred site for Hindus, Buddhists and others.
Social media posts were surfacing Thursday from loved ones pleading for people to provide updates or circulate information about Americans they had lost contact with — a Virginia woman travelling with a tour group, a Texas couple on a birthday trip, and a mother accompanying her 14-year-old daughter.
China-Nepal Rasuwagadhi border destroyed, reveals analysis
05:10 , Namita SinghNew imagery from Vantor Tech confirms that the China-Nepal Rasuwagadhi border crossing has been completely destroyed, with the glacial flood completely scouring the valley floor.
New imagery from @vantortech confirms that the China-Nepal Rasuwagadhi border crossing has been completely destroyed, with the glacial flood completely scouring the valley floor.
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) August 27, 2026
At least 359 people are dead and nearly 1,000 missing, according to local authorities. pic.twitter.com/DiBiUzJGtO
At least 469 people are dead and nearly 1,000 missing, according to local authorities.
Sussex man’s wife, parents, brother and uncle missing
05:00 , Jane Dalton
Sussex man’s wife, parents, brother and uncle missing after Nepal floods
Torrent tore through border crossing
04:54 , Namita SinghChinese rescuers had yet to reach the worst-hit area on the Chinese side of the border, the Gyirong border crossing, by Thursday evening, state media reports indicated, as crews worked to clear debris from the key access road leading to the area.
The Gyirong border port has a key role in China's Belt and Road network linking the country to South Asia, with logistics zones and parking lots built there in the past decade. Dramatic footage on Wednesday showed enormous torrents of muddy water and debris tearing through structures in the border crossing area within seconds and engulfing people trying to flee.
The tally of missing in Tibet's Gyirong County was 558, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said on Thursday, including 260 foreign nationals.
So far, just three people have been confirmed dead on the Chinese side. China's Premier Li Qiang, the country's No 2 official, arrived at the disaster-stricken site in Gyirong on Thursday afternoon, state-run Xinhua news agency said.
The visit suggested Beijing was treating the disaster as a matter of the highest national priority.
Rescuers scour Nepal flood debris as risk of fresh flooding grows
04:34 , Namita SinghRescue teams using heavy machinery dug through mud and debris in Nepalese towns devastated by a flash flood two days ago, as hopes of finding survivors faded and officials worked to reduce the risk of fresh flooding.
The confirmed death toll in Nepal was at 469 people early on Friday, with hundreds more missing there and in neighbouring Tibet, near where a glacier collapse on Wednesday morning sent a huge torrent of rock, ice, mud and debris cascading through Himalayan mountain river systems.
The flood ripped through villages and valleys, destroying power stations, roads and bridges along a route that links Kathmandu with Lhasa in Tibet and is popular with trekkers and pilgrims.
Of those missing, at least 650 are foreigners. Authorities in Nepal used helicopters to search for survivors and drop emergency supplies to thousands cut off in towns and valleys, while emergency services – some using sniffer dogs – recovered dozens of bodies swept down into the plains.
Nepal death toll jumps to 469
04:11 , Namita SinghThe death toll from the flash floods in Nepal has jumped to 469, said the police.
A glacier collapse on Wednesday morning sent a huge torrent of rock, ice, mud and debris cascading through Himalayan mountain river systems.
The flood ripped through villages and valleys, destroying power stations, roads and bridges along a route that links Kathmandu with Lhasa in Tibet and is popular with trekkers and pilgrims.
Nepal and China warn of second flood from newly formed lakes
04:00 , Jane DaltonNepal and China both warned on Thursday of fresh risks of flooding in the Himalayas as two lakes that have developed on either side of their border threaten to burst in a region still grappling with this week's catastrophic flood.
Search -and-rescue operations are still under way in the debris-strewn valleys and hillsides for the more than 1,000 people still missing.
Both countries have blamed the flood on a glacier collapse that pushed rock, ice, mud and debris into river systems in the mountains.
Nepal's disaster authority issued a notice on Thursday warning that a lake formed by debris blocking a river at the flood site is rising and at risk of bursting.
'I'm broken - I have no one else,' says sister of missing pilgrim
03:00 , Jane DaltonMany victims were pilgrims heading to Kailash Mansarovar, a high-altitude site in Tibet revered by Hindus and Buddhists.
Around the world, relatives of those missing were desperate for information about their loved ones.
Vasanthi Muniandy, whose sister Vennila was part of a Hindu pilgrimage group from Malaysia, said she had last heard from her after Vennila had crossed into Tibet from Nepal.
"I am totally broken. My sister is very important to me," said Vasanthi. "I really want her to come back. I don’t have anyone but her. I just want her to come back home. I want her to be safe."
Sagar Pandey, the chief executive of a Himalayan tourism operator, told Reuters after flying over the zone in a helicopter: “There are no human-made things, no human settlement left. Everything is just flat.
"So anyone in the hotel, the restaurant, or the car, I believe that everybody is gone."
Bodies found 62 miles from disaster area
02:00 , Jane DaltonThe Red Cross said entire villages in Nepal had been destroyed and impassable roads and bridges had left communities cut off.
Rescue teams located 100 missing Indian visitors, mostly pilgrims, and 25 Chinese workers in the worst-hit region around Trishuli.
The flood “came in suddenly and exploded like a bomb,” said survivor Janak Bahadur.
Ganesh Aryal, administrator of Chitwan district, said authorities had recovered 103 bodies from the river system in his district, which is about 62 miles away in the plains from the worst-hit region of Trishuli.
With local hospitals unable to accommodate all the bodies, district authorities were setting up tents and making arrangements for families to claim their dead relatives, he said.
Rescuers 'yet to reach worst-hit area in China'
01:00 , Jane DaltonChinese rescuers had yet to reach the worst-hit area on the Chinese side of the border, the Gyirong border crossing, by Thursday evening, state-media reports indicated.
Crews were working to clear debris from the key access road leading to the area.
All the buildings in the border-crossing complex, including the border gate, a stately building bearing China's national emblem and housing customs and immigration agencies, were destroyed by the mudslide, footage showed.
The entire compound was reduced to an unrecognisable mass, caked in thick, muddy debris and almost devoid of any sign of civilisation, the footage showed.
The tally of missing in Tibet's Gyirong County was 558, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said on Thursday, including 260 foreign nationals.
Watch: Terrifying CCTV shows people fleeing seconds before water engulfs Nepal-Tibet border
Thursday 27 August 2026 23:59 , Jane Dalton
Terrifying CCTV shows people fleeing as floodwaters engulf Nepal border crossing
Timeline of deadly Himalayan disasters
Thursday 27 August 2026 23:00 , Jane Dalton
A timeline of deadly Himalayan disasters as Nepal flash floods kills hundreds
UK offers Nepal £5m
Thursday 27 August 2026 22:30 , Jane Dalton
UK offers £5m to Nepal following devastating flash floods
Watch: Sussex man says he hasn't heard from family in Nepal
Thursday 27 August 2026 22:00 , Jane DaltonKent woman desperate for news of sister
Thursday 27 August 2026 21:20 , Jane DaltonA woman from Kent says she has been unable to contact her sister, who was near the Nepal-Tibet border when the flash flooding hit.
Tatajana Phillips told the BBC her sister, Julija Jakovicka, was last known to be in the border area an hour before the disaster struck.
"Then there is no more news," she says. "We are really hoping that people hear us and try to find [my sister]".
Phillips says her sister, a mother of two living in Germany, was in the country for a yoga and meditation retreat with tourists.
"We are terribly worried," adds Phillips's husband, Ben. "We just know where they were and that's really tough."
Rescuers save 350 people stranded in tunnel
Thursday 27 August 2026 20:52 , Jane DaltonAs many as 350 people stranded in a tunnel at a hydropower plant have been rescued, a Nepali news site reports.
A rescue operation for 100 workers and locals still stranded inside was going on.
The Nepali Army rescued 833 people from flood-hit area on Thursday, Rising Nepal Daily said.
Husband of British woman 'devastated' as no reply from her phone
Thursday 27 August 2026 20:00 , Jane DaltonThe “devastated” husband of a British woman missing in Nepal says he's been desperately trying to contact her but has been unable to.
Sunil Amin told Sky News he last heard from his wife, Hema Amin, on Monday, at around 4.30pm, after she travelled to Nepal with her sister over the weekend.
"I keep trying to call her. I've been trying, trying, trying," he said, speaking from Croydon.
Mr Amin said the sisters started a pilgrimage to Gosainkunda lake on Monday.
Since the floods struck yesterday morning, he's been repeatedly trying to get in touch with her, with no success.
When he tries to call her, it just rings out or doesn't get through, he said, adding: "We are waiting for replies but nothing is coming through. We're having no joy."
Pictured: Clean-up efforts begin
Thursday 27 August 2026 19:15 , Jane Dalton
What triggered Nepal flash floods?
Thursday 27 August 2026 18:43 , Maryam Zakir-HussainThe Himalayan flash floods that have killed at least 380 people and left some 1,500 missing across Nepal and Tibet were not triggered by an earthquake, contrary to initial reports, but by a glacier collapse so violent it produced its own seismic signal, the United States Geological Survey said.
The agency initially recorded a magnitude 4.4 earthquake along the Nepal-China border, north of Kathmandu, at about 8.37am local time on Wednesday, before revising its assessment in a statement issued that evening.
It said the seismic signal had come from “a glacial collapse and debris flow” rather than a tectonic quake, and that the collapse alone had caused the catastrophic flooding downstream. Once reclassified, the event registered at magnitude 5.2, a measure of the force of the ice and rock striking the valley floor rather than of any movement underground.
Read more here:
What triggered Nepal flash floods? And why are experts worried about a second flood?
Magnitude 5 earthquake hits Tibet, hundreds of miles north of Himalayan flood
Thursday 27 August 2026 18:03 , Maryam Zakir-HussainA magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck China's Tibet region late on Thursday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.
The quake was at a depth of 10 km in northern Tibet, GFZ said.
The epicentre was hundreds of miles north of the regions of Nepal and China that were hit by a devastating flash flood on Wednesday that killed hundreds and left more than 1,000 people missing.
China's earthquake networks centre also reported a magnitude 4.7 quake in Nagqu, Tibet, on Wednesday, state-run Xinhua news agency said.
China has activated a Level-IV flood response in Tibet amid the risk of a barrier lake breach, Xinhua added.
China's Ministry of Water Resources told local authorities to monitor the barrier lake and rainfall, and sent an expert team to Gyirong county, according to Xinhua.
Chinese villagers rescued, authorities say
Thursday 27 August 2026 17:45 , Jane DaltonChina’s state news agency says at least 300 residents of villages near a border port struck by the mudslide in the country’s southwest were taken to safety, according to authorities.
Residents of villages near a border port struck by a mudslide in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region have all been evacuated, according to Xizang's border inspection authorities. #XinhuaNews pic.twitter.com/X5SAeAMXsS
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) August 27, 2026
Death toll rises to 389, police say
Thursday 27 August 2026 17:28 , Jane DaltonThe number of people killed by the flood has risen to 389, Nepali police say.
Bodies have been recovered in eight districts, they say.
Sussex man’s wife, parents, brother and uncle missing after Nepal floods
Thursday 27 August 2026 17:15 , Jane DaltonSussex man’s wife, parents, brother and uncle missing after Nepal floods
Rescuers move after warning of fresh flood
Thursday 27 August 2026 16:52 , Jane DaltonSome rescue workers in Nepal have begun moving towards higher ground after warnings of a second flood.
Pawan Koirala, who began moving away from the river bed along with his team of 13, said: “We are here for rescue and don't want to be near the danger zone."
Fear of second flood prompts evacuation order
Thursday 27 August 2026 16:28 , Jane DaltonEvacuation orders are in place for Jilong Port on the Nepal-Tibet border because of a the risk of a second wave of flooding.
Experts are assessing whether debris from the flood temporarily blocked Nepal's Trishuli River at a narrow section, forming a landslide dam.
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Nepal says that type of blockage can create a secondary hazard if impounded water is suddenly released.
"With a blockage still lodged upstream on the Nepal-China border, authorities warn a second flood is imminent," said Qianggong Zhang, head of climate and environmental risks.
Nepal and China warn of risk of second wave of flooding
Thursday 27 August 2026 16:22 , Jane DaltonNepal and China have both warned of fresh risks of flooding in the Himalayas as two lakes that have developed on either side of their border threaten to burst.
Nepal's disaster authority issued a notice warning that a lake formed by debris blocking a river at the flood site is rising and at risk of bursting.
"Residents of the lower banks... passengers, rescuers engaged in rescue operations, and all concerned are requested to exercise special caution and stay in safe places away from the river banks and risky areas," the authority said.
China warned that 3 million cubic meters of water — the equivalent of about 1,200 Olympic swimming pools — are expected to flow into an already dammed lake on its side of the border over the next three days, creating a high risk of a breach, with peak flow expected around September 1.
Rainfall forecast over the coming week will exacerbate the threat, Chinese state media said, citing the Chinese water resources ministry.
"The volume of water is continuing to increase, and so is the risk," Zhu Jinfeng, a researcher at the water resources ministry's hydrology department, told state broadcaster CCTV.
Nepal workers run as terrifying floodwaters close in
Thursday 27 August 2026 15:30 , Dan HaygarthMapped: Location of the floods
Thursday 27 August 2026 14:48 , Dan Haygarth'Please help us', says mayor
Thursday 27 August 2026 14:40 , Dan HaygarthKabita Dhungana, deputy mayor of Nuwakot in Nepal, said “please help us”, as she spoke to BBC Radio 4’s The World At One about the flash floods her region is experiencing.
She said: “Family members, children, parents are missing, and this is a very critical bad situation…
“Everything, basic needs are destroyed, so please help us. We are really in need of help.”
King Charles 'heartbroken' after floods in Nepal
Thursday 27 August 2026 14:29 , Dan Haygarth
King Charles said he and the Queen were “heartbroken” and sent their “most profound sympathy” to those affected by the “devastating” flash floods in Nepal where dozens of British nationals are among the hundreds missing and feared dead.
The King said in his written message: “My wife and I are heartbroken to hear of the devastating flooding that has struck the Nepal-China border.
“Many in the United Kingdom have strong, deep and personal ties to this part of the world.
“We send our most profound sympathy to all those who have so tragically lost their loved ones and we feel deeply for the many families awaiting anxiously the news of friends and relations.
“Our hearts go out also to the families of all the police and Armed Forces personnel who lost their lives while carrying out their courageous duty in the service of others and we give our deepest thanks to those who have responded so selflessly in undertaking rescue efforts.
“Our special thoughts and prayers remain with all those affected and, as always, the United Kingdom stands ready to help support those in need.
“Charles R.”
Nepali man recalls how he clung to mango tree for survival during deadly flash floods: ‘I would have washed away to death’
Thursday 27 August 2026 14:16 , Dan HaygarthBibek Kumal, a 24-year-old Nepali labourer, was digging a 1.5m (5ft) deep toilet pit beside a newly constructed house on Wednesday when he heard a distinct hissing sound. Seconds later, a torrent of mud, water and rock tore through the site, sweeping him and everything nearby away.
Working in Bidur, downstream from the severely impacted Rasuwa district near Nepal’s border with Tibet, Mr Kumal was warned by four co-workers standing above who shouted at him to run. By the time he managed to scramble out, his colleagues had already fled.
“I started running. Then a wall of water came thundering down as if it was an earthquake,” Kumal said from his bed at Kathmandu’s National Trauma Centre, his brother Dinesh sitting beside him.
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Nepali man recalls how he clung to mango tree for survival during deadly flash floods
Watch: UK offers £5m to Nepal following country’s devastating flash floods
Thursday 27 August 2026 14:00 , Dan HaygarthLive: Nepal flash floods live: Fears of second flood as death toll rises with hundreds more missing
Thursday 27 August 2026 13:44 , James ReynoldsDeath toll rises to 359 - local media
Thursday 27 August 2026 13:17 , James ReynoldsThe reported death toll in Nepal has risen to 359, according to local media.
More than 650 foreigners are still unaccounted for while Nepali authorities were yet to determine the number of locals missing.
Flood lake at risk of bursting in Nepal
Thursday 27 August 2026 12:54 , James ReynoldsA lake formed at the site where the flood in Nepal occurred is rising and is at risk of bursting, the country's disaster authority said on Thursday, as it appealed to residents and rescuers to stay away from the river banks.
The blockage of a river on Wednesday led to the lake's formation, the authority said.
Have you been affected by the floods?
Thursday 27 August 2026 12:48 , James ReynoldsWe are looking to hear from people who have been affected by the flash floods in Nepal.
If you or someone you know has been impacted, and you would like to share a story or appeal, contact james.reynolds@independent.co.uk.
If you need support, the UK is providing consular support to British nationals who require assistance following flash flooding in the Nepal-China border area.
British nationals who need assistance should call:
Nepal: +977 (0) 1423 7100China: +86 (0) 10 5192 4000UK: +44 (0) 20 7008 5000
Full story - Survivors of Nepal flash floods describe being hit by ‘wall of water’: ‘My wife is still beneath the mud’
Thursday 27 August 2026 12:25 , Dan Haygarth
Survivors of Nepal flood describe ‘wall of water’: ‘My wife is beneath the mud’
What caused the deadly flood?
Thursday 27 August 2026 12:07 , Dan HaygarthThe deadly flash flood in Nepal on Wednesday was likely caused by a huge chunk of a glacier that broke off and temporarily dammed a river, according to preliminary investigations by scientists.
That may have led to the backed-up water surging downstream with enormous force a few hours later, they suggested.
Scientists are still piecing together information from satellite and ground-level data to figure out exactly what happened to cause the flood.
The US Geological Survey on Wednesday reported a magnitude 5.2 glacier collapse that sent debris flowing downstream with catastrophic impact on communities. It said its determination was based on data from nearby seismic stations, long period seismic waves and satellite imagery.
"A lower part of a glacier has really come off," said Jakob Steiner, a geoscientist at the University of Graz in Austria who is currently based in Bangladesh.
"If you look at the imagery it's like someone cut with a huge knife through the whole lower part and it fell off."
Steiner said a mass of glacial ice dropping from a great height could have felt like a bomb exploding, resulting in the chaos that followed.
