Fuel, food and other essentials are reaching the Capital through alternative roads, but transport disruption is pushing up prices and limiting cooking gas supplies.

Authorities are mapping unsafe settlements and considering safer locations, but past disasters show that moving communities away from their land and livelihoods can be unsuitable.

Families perform funeral rites using effigies, mourners struggle to find cooking gas.

After years of unfulfilled government promises to move them to safe ground, dozens of quake-affected families in Rasuwa and Nuwakot have now been swept away by the catastrophic Bhotekoshi flood.

Traffic halted after a three-metre-wide section of the highway sank at Pataleban, with small vehicles diverted through the Nagdhunga tunnel.

From a Rasuwa holding centre, survivors recount desperate escapes, relatives swept away and the loss of homes, villages and entire families in the Bhotekoshi disaster.

14-year-old Akash Tamang says he survived the floods, but his younger brother and sister are missing. 17,000 children have been directly affected by floods in Bhotekoshi and Trishuli corridors, says UNICEF.

Medicines are running short, health services remain disrupted, and crowded shelters are raising fears of disease outbreaks among displaced families.

Displaced patients miss essential drugs while hospitals struggle with dwindling supplies, no fuel and worsening sanitation as insecurity spreads around shelters.

Prem Bahadur and Maiya Tamang have turned their lone hillside home into a shelter, feeding and housing more than 200 people since the disaster despite relying mainly on small government allowances.

They ran for higher ground, fled through forests and raced ahead of the torrent as homes and communities vanished.

As the search for bodies drags on, survivors in the river settlements are searching for loved ones trapped beneath collapsed homes, and waiting for the government to arrive.

For those who escaped the devastating flood in Rasuwa, survival brought an unexpected second chance at life, but also the trauma of watching their homes, colleagues and loved ones disappear in minutes.

With hundreds still unaccounted for after the floods, relatives wait anxiously for news as rescue teams race to reach those stranded and recover the missing.

The destruction has cut a key trade route to the China border, with several bridges swept away and damage assessments still underway.