Prime minister tells parliament the disaster in Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading is a shared national tragedy as the government details its search, rescue and relief efforts.

Search crews are clearing debris, draining flooded tunnels and blasting through rock as operations continue at several projects in flood-hit Rasuwa and Nuwakot.

The debris includes collapsed buildings, household belongings, vegetation, rocks and sediment, with more than 84,000 people affected across 17 municipalities.

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

Some Nepalis survived the Bhotekoshi and Rasuwa flood by luck, not by warning. Their story, and interviews with the officials who built Nepal’s flood alert system, exposes their limits and shows how a knowable risk went unmonitored for years.

Twenty-three workers from Bardiya, who narrowly escaped the flood in Rasuwa, returned home on Sunday after spending days stranded in the disaster zone.

Families are demanding answers as mud and debris block access to hydropower plants where dozens of workers are feared trapped after the Bhotekoshi flood.

Death toll from the August 26 flash flood continues to climb as search teams recover bodies downstream.

Raj Kumar Shrestha’s relatives say a body resembling him was photographed after the August 26 disaster but they were unable to locate it after they were told it had been transferred to TU Teaching Hospital from Nuwakot.

A 70-metre section has fallen into the Trishuli river, and another 120 metres is severely cracked.

Once deployed mainly by international rescue teams after the 2015 earthquake, Nepal’s drone expertise is now helping deliver supplies, search for survivors and even airlift bodies from areas rescuers cannot safely reach.

Government’s first situation report puts the death toll at 1,050, with nearly 4,000 missing and more than 21,000 security personnel involved in a vast rescue operation alongside international teams.

An estimated 157,050 women and girls in Rasuwa and Nuwakot have been directly or indirectly affected, with food, safe water and protection emerging as urgent concerns.

Requests climate funds for recovery, along with tunnel rescue teams, forensic expertise and critical equipment.

Bharatpur Hospital struggled to manage 321 bodies recovered in Chitwan before 199 were buried over two days, easing pressure on its morgue and allowing regular services to resume.

Six-party committees have been formed in Rasuwa and Nuwakot to coordinate relief distribution as the government faces criticism over its initial reliance on security agencies.

The incident indicates that the risks Nepal face in the Himalayan region are increasing alongside climate change.

Rescue teams have located tunnel entrances and advanced hundreds of metres into several hydropower projects along the Bhotekoshi-Trishuli corridor as the search for missing workers continues.

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.

The latest toll comes as search teams recover bodies from Rasuwa and downstream districts, while hundreds of workers at hydropower projects remain unaccounted for.