Nepal–China border emergency
Two workers were rescued alive in Nepal as searches, family tracing and shelter support continue after the border flood.
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Nepal's evening bulletin lists 1,294 recovered bodies and remains, about 5,053 people out of contact and 13,095 people rescued. The recovery and tracing totals may overlap while identification continues. China separately reports 31 deaths and 531 missing at Gyirong Port as of 18:00 CST.
Sources: National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, Bagmati Welfare Society Nepal, Onlinekhabar and China's rescue authorities
Nepal's Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms that two workers were rescued alive from the Trishuli 3A hydropower tunnel. UNICEF reports that 84 metric tonnes of supplies arrived in Kathmandu with European Union support, including water-treatment, medical, shelter and education materials.
Sources: Nepal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UNICEF and HimalPress
The disaster-authority update records 1,259 bodies recovered, 5,083 people out of contact, 12,038 rescued and 3,844 people in holding centres. More than 21,000 security personnel are deployed, while international and humanitarian support expands.
Sources: National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, Nepal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, HimalPress and Public Service Broadcasting Radio Nepal
Nepal's latest disaster-authority balance records 939 deaths and 3,925 people missing, including 639 hydropower workers. Teams continue searching damaged tunnels and downstream riverbanks, while Chinese emergency crews work to reopen the final damaged section of the G216 route towards Gyirong Port.
Sources: National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, Nepal Army and China's Ministry of Emergency Management
The national disaster authority issues a higher provisional balance as searches, identification work and family tracing continue. An initial Education Cluster assessment says at least 69 schools were destroyed or damaged, affecting 18,918 enrolled children.
Sources: National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, Save the Children and the Education Cluster
Water levels rise again in the Bhotekoshi before receding. Residents in exposed parts of Rasuwa and Nuwakot move to higher ground while a helicopter assessment begins; no new damage balance is yet confirmed.
Sources: Gosaikunda Rural Municipality, Rasuwa District Administration Office and Public Service Broadcasting Radio Nepal
The national disaster authority says 7,514 people have been rescued and 219 injured people have received treatment. China separately reports 16 deaths and 546 people missing at Gyirong Port.
Sources: National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, INSEC and China's regional government
The national balance records 579 deaths and 1,924 people missing. China separately reports five deaths and 558 people missing at Gyirong Port.
Sources: National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority and Chinese authorities
UNICEF reports 17,000 children affected and appeals for US$17.2 million. IFRC estimates around 93,000 people may be affected and launches a CHF25 million emergency appeal.
Sources: UNICEF, IFRC and Nepal Red Cross Society
Late reporting citing Nepal Police records 389 bodies recovered across eight districts and 466 injured people rescued while searches continue.
Sources: Nepal Police, Onlinekhabar and Nepal News
Nepal Police figures put the toll at 270, while the national disaster authority reports 826 people missing and 66 people receiving or having received hospital care.
Sources: Nepal Police, National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority and Nepal News
Reported totals rise through 162 and 177 as teams recover more bodies downstream and authorities reconcile records.
Sources: Nepal Police, Radio Nepal and Nepal News
Nepal mobilises rescue, medical and tracing teams as China activates a national level-two relief response and sends central supplies to Gyirong County.
Sources: Nepal Police and China's Ministry of Emergency Management
The Tourism Board reports hundreds of travellers out of contact, while authorities deploy tracing and rescue teams across the affected corridor.
Sources: Nepal Tourism Board and Radio Nepal
A powerful surge moves through Timure and Syabrubesi before travelling downstream, damaging settlements, roads, bridges and power facilities.
Sources: Rasuwa District Administration Office and Nepal authorities
Initial assessments suggest an ice-and-rock avalanche may have blocked the Lhende River before a sudden release, but the cause is not yet final.
Sources: ICIMOD and National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority
Verified emergency facts
Nepal's 4 September bulletin, issued at 18:30 NPT, remains provisional. Recovered remains may belong to people still on missing lists, so the recovery and out-of-contact figures must not be added together.
Bodies and remains recorded; 96 bodies had been identified and returned to families.
Authorities are still reconciling tracing and identification records.
37 centres across Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading districts in Nepal.
Why help matters
Flood-affected households, stranded travellers, border workers and rescue teams need safe access, shelter, water, healthcare, education continuity, child protection and reliable tracing information while roads, bridges, power systems and communications are assessed.
UNICEF says at least 22,000 children urgently need safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene support. Damaged services and crowded shelters raise disease risks, while the rescue of two workers from a tunnel underscores the continuing search effort.
The United Nations and humanitarian partners launched a separate US$49.6 million, four-month appeal on 4 September to assist more than 84,000 people. Its priorities include shelter before winter, water, healthcare, food, cash assistance and protection.
The recovery count and out-of-contact balances may change as field searches, identification work and restored communications produce clearer evidence. Nepal's revised out-of-contact total corrects the previous bulletin's arithmetic; it does not establish that 30 people have been found.
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Searches, communications restoration and scientific assessments are continuing. Later official updates may change the casualty and tracing totals or refine the exact sequence of the assessed glacier collapse, ice-rock avalanche and debris flow.
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