Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
(27 Aug 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
++CORRECTS SPELLING OF LOCATION IN ONSCREEN ANNOTATION TO NUWAKOT++
SABIN DHAMALA
Nuwakot, Nepal - 26 August 2026
1. Aerials of flood-affected area
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nuwakot, Nepal - 26 August 2026
2. Various of women and rescuers in scoop of frontloader
3. SOUNDBITE (Nepali) Shoyam Rajbhandari, local resident: ++STARTS ON SHOT 1, PARTIALLY SPLITSCREEN WITH SHOT 2 AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 3 AND 4++
“When I reached Dhunge bazaar (market), in half an hour, the flood came and damaged all the market. People were preparing to go to the office then. We don't know how many people are missing or dead.”
3. Woman being carried by rescuers
4. Mid of damage
5. Ambulances driving by
6. Various of first responders moving injured person in vehicle
7. Various of relatives outside army camp
SABIN DHAMALA
Nuwakot District, Nepal - 26 August 2026
8. Various aerials of flood-affected areas
STORYLINE:
Rescue teams searched for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border after a catastrophic and deadly torrent of floods and mud swept through several communities a day earlier following a glacier collapse.
The disaster left 168 people dead and more than 1,300 missing, including foreigners and pilgrims, and displaced hundreds of people across the Himalayan region.
Videos of the tragedy showed the flood swallowing people as they tried to escape, and destroying buildings and bridges.
On Thursday, drone footage from Nepal showed the scale of the destruction.
The region’s steep valleys are economic lifelines and travel corridors, but are precarious when disaster strikes.
Images showed what appeared to be the second floors of buildings in Nuwakot slathered in mud after the torrent rushed by.
Debris hung from tree branches and wires, vehicles were buried and some stunned survivors were caked in mud.
The floods halted travel in some areas.
There was little time for anyone to flee.
“When I reached Dhunge bazaar, in half an hour, the flood came and damaged all the market. People were preparing to go to the office then,” resident Shoyam Rajbhandari said.
“How many people are missing or dead, we don’t know.”
AP video shot by: Upendra Man Singh
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(27 Aug 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
++CORRECTS SPELLING OF LOCATION IN ONSCREEN ANNOTATION TO NUWAKOT++
SABIN DHAMALA
Nuwakot, Nepal - 26 August 2026
1. Aerials of flood-affected area
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nuwakot, Nepal - 26 August 2026
2. Various of women and rescuers in scoop of frontloader
3. SOUNDBITE (Nepali) Shoyam Rajbhandari, local resident: ++STARTS ON SHOT 1, PARTIALLY SPLITSCREEN WITH SHOT 2 AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 3 AND 4++
“When I reached Dhunge bazaar (market), in half an hour, the flood came and damaged all the market. People were preparing to go to the office then. We don't know how many people are missing or dead.”
3. Woman being carried by rescuers
4. Mid of damage
5. Ambulances driving by
6. Various of first responders moving injured person in vehicle
7. Various of relatives outside army camp
SABIN DHAMALA
Nuwakot District, Nepal - 26 August 2026
8. Various aerials of flood-affected areas
STORYLINE:
Rescue teams searched for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border after a catastrophic and deadly torrent of floods and mud swept through several communities a day earlier following a glacier collapse.
The disaster left 168 people dead and more than 1,300 missing, including foreigners and pilgrims, and displaced hundreds of people across the Himalayan region.
Videos of the tragedy showed the flood swallowing people as they tried to escape, and destroying buildings and bridges.
On Thursday, drone footage from Nepal showed the scale of the destruction.
The region’s steep valleys are economic lifelines and travel corridors, but are precarious when disaster strikes.
Images showed what appeared to be the second floors of buildings in Nuwakot slathered in mud after the torrent rushed by.
Debris hung from tree branches and wires, vehicles were buried and some stunned survivors were caked in mud.
The floods halted travel in some areas.
There was little time for anyone to flee.
“When I reached Dhunge bazaar, in half an hour, the flood came and damaged all the market. People were preparing to go to the office then,” resident Shoyam Rajbhandari said.
“How many people are missing or dead, we don’t know.”
AP video shot by: Upendra Man Singh
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