Azadeh Mashiri

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Global News Podcast · Hundreds missing after devastating floods on China-Nepal border · 26 Aug 2026 podcast

The flood tore through homes.

It damaged infrastructure early on Wednesday.

But we likely won't know the true scale of the disaster, the true figure of the casualties for the next hours or even the coming days.

Right now, we know that 17 people are confirmed to have died.

That's according to Nepal's police.

But especially when it comes to an area like this that is remote, it's in northern Nepal, in Rasur, which is near the border with Tibet, it's very hard to access.

And so information keeps coming out hour by hour, and the true casualty figures could be much higher.

We know that at this point, they believe more than at least 10 hydropower stations have been damaged.

Police have said that they're struggling to get in touch with dozens of their own police officers and

Officials believe the cause is excessive snow melting into the Butekusi River, which flows from Tibet to Nepal.

And so rescue operations are ongoing.

Unfortunately, Nepal is no stranger to deadly flooding.

Last year, 18 people died because of a glacial outburst on the Chinese border.

But again, officials are saying this time they believe that the casualties could be much higher.

It is.

And here at the BBC, we're continuing to verify a lot of the videos because there is a lot that's coming out on social media.

Some of it is true.

Some of it needs to be verified.

But of the ones that we have verified, you're seeing mudslide, these brown waters just engulf villages, sweep them away.

And

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