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(27 Aug 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nuwakot, Nepal - 27 August 2026
1. Rescue helicopter preparing to take off
2. Another rescue helicopter landing at army barracks
3. Tourists resting after being rescued by police
4. Mid of belongings
5. Wide of tourists resting
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Navu Kabirdas, Indian tourist:
++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
“All of a sudden, this incident happened and we lost two buses. Luckily, we escaped. We broke the driver's door and escaped from there. We reached a safer place and now we are here.”
7. Mid of tourists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Navu Kabirdas, Indian tourist:
++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
“We got out in five minutes but we needed to climb the rocky mountain. It took around half an hour to reach a safer place. Everything happened in just 10 minutes.”
9. Mid of tourist checking phone
10. Mid of tourist sleeping
11. Wide of flood affected area
12. Various of rescue team with sniffer dog conducting search and rescue operation
13. Wide of flooded Trishuli river
14. Helicopter flying during rescue operation
STORYLINE:
Rescue teams and military helicopters searched Thursday for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border, where a deadly torrent of water and mud several stories high swept through communities a day earlier following a glacier collapse.
A group of Indian tourists waiting to be repatriated told Associate Press their ordeal.
“All of a sudden, this incident happened and we lost two buses. Luckily, we escaped. We broke the driver's door and escaped from there. We reached a safer place and now we are here," said tourist Navu Kabirdas.
He added that everything happened in 10 minutes. After managing to leave the bus, the group climbed a mountain and managed to get to Nuwakot.
More than 360 people were killed, police said and more than 1,400 were missing, including scores of foreigners and pilgrims. Hundreds of others have been displaced across the Himalayan region.
The steep slopes and lush valleys below the Himalayan mountain range — home to many of the world’s highest peaks and remaining glaciers — are especially vulnerable to flooding and landslides. Melting glaciers have become more common because of human-caused climate change.
The disaster has left at least 910 people missing in Nepal. Authorities in Tibet, an autonomous region of China reported at least three dead and 558 missing.
Nepalese officials said that dozens of bridges were destroyed and nearly 40 kilometers (25 miles) of roads were damaged, complicating search efforts.
The Nepalese army has rescued more than 100 people by helicopter, army spokesperson Brig. Gen. Raja Ram Basnet said. Army teams also evacuated people trapped inside facilities linked to the Trishuli hydropower project, he added.
Dozens of injured people were transported to Kathmandu for medical care.
Rescuers found bodies in Chitwan district hundreds of kilometers (miles) downstream from the hardest-hit areas.
AP video shot by: Niranjan Shrestha and Upendra Man Singh
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(27 Aug 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nuwakot, Nepal - 27 August 2026
1. Rescue helicopter preparing to take off
2. Another rescue helicopter landing at army barracks
3. Tourists resting after being rescued by police
4. Mid of belongings
5. Wide of tourists resting
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Navu Kabirdas, Indian tourist:
++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
“All of a sudden, this incident happened and we lost two buses. Luckily, we escaped. We broke the driver's door and escaped from there. We reached a safer place and now we are here.”
7. Mid of tourists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Navu Kabirdas, Indian tourist:
++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
“We got out in five minutes but we needed to climb the rocky mountain. It took around half an hour to reach a safer place. Everything happened in just 10 minutes.”
9. Mid of tourist checking phone
10. Mid of tourist sleeping
11. Wide of flood affected area
12. Various of rescue team with sniffer dog conducting search and rescue operation
13. Wide of flooded Trishuli river
14. Helicopter flying during rescue operation
STORYLINE:
Rescue teams and military helicopters searched Thursday for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border, where a deadly torrent of water and mud several stories high swept through communities a day earlier following a glacier collapse.
A group of Indian tourists waiting to be repatriated told Associate Press their ordeal.
“All of a sudden, this incident happened and we lost two buses. Luckily, we escaped. We broke the driver's door and escaped from there. We reached a safer place and now we are here," said tourist Navu Kabirdas.
He added that everything happened in 10 minutes. After managing to leave the bus, the group climbed a mountain and managed to get to Nuwakot.
More than 360 people were killed, police said and more than 1,400 were missing, including scores of foreigners and pilgrims. Hundreds of others have been displaced across the Himalayan region.
The steep slopes and lush valleys below the Himalayan mountain range — home to many of the world’s highest peaks and remaining glaciers — are especially vulnerable to flooding and landslides. Melting glaciers have become more common because of human-caused climate change.
The disaster has left at least 910 people missing in Nepal. Authorities in Tibet, an autonomous region of China reported at least three dead and 558 missing.
Nepalese officials said that dozens of bridges were destroyed and nearly 40 kilometers (25 miles) of roads were damaged, complicating search efforts.
The Nepalese army has rescued more than 100 people by helicopter, army spokesperson Brig. Gen. Raja Ram Basnet said. Army teams also evacuated people trapped inside facilities linked to the Trishuli hydropower project, he added.
Dozens of injured people were transported to Kathmandu for medical care.
Rescuers found bodies in Chitwan district hundreds of kilometers (miles) downstream from the hardest-hit areas.
AP video shot by: Niranjan Shrestha and Upendra Man Singh
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