Nepal's Heroic Rescue Efforts Save Over 13,300 Amid Devastating Glacier-Caused Floods

September 6, 2026
Nepal's Heroic Rescue Efforts Save Over 13,300 Amid Devastating Glacier-Caused Floods
  • Rescue workers from the Nepal Army, Nepal Police, and Armed Police Force have saved more than 13,300 people, using land routes, helicopters, and other methods in a broad, coordinated effort.

  • Security forces are conducting round-the-clock operations to manage recovered bodies with sensitivity, curb disease spread, and support flood-affected camp residents.

  • Rescue teams from India, China, South Korea, and the United States are assisting in debris clearance, searches through damaged structures, and tunnel work at hydropower sites.

  • Nepal’s disaster management agency says the floods were caused by a glacier collapse.

  • Official reports continue to document helicopter evacuations, on-site medics, and rescues, including CCTV footage of a rescuer pulling a man from a tunnel.

  • The floods on August 26 left at least 1,300 people dead and over 5,000 missing, with authorities maintaining large-scale rescue operations.

  • Prime Minister Shah expressed gratitude to families of personnel and to expert supporters at home and abroad for their crisis-management efforts.

  • In Nuwakot town, a woman was rescued alive from a damaged house and airlifted to Kathmandu for treatment.

  • Rescue infrastructure includes Bailey bridges, road clearance, Acro bridges, drone surveillance, canine units, and aerial support to aid movement and rescues.

  • Rescuers recovered a Chinese man and a woman ten days after the floods, bringing the number of survivors from the Trishuli hydropower project to three.

  • Disaster response bases and field command posts have been established to coordinate search, rescue, relief distribution, hospitalizations, and public safety.

  • A man rescued from a 225-meter hydropower tunnel was evacuated by helicopter for medical assessment and remains in stable condition.

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