Toll rises to 469 as police publish new district count

Nepal Disaster Update LivePublished 28 August 2026, 7:00 am NPTRevised after publicationSuperseded by a later briefing

Nepal Police put the confirmed toll at 469 dead as of a 7am bulletin on Friday, up from 389 at 9pm Thursday and 359 at 5pm. Police also said 466 people are injured, a figure not revised since Thursday. The flood hit Timure in Rasuwa on Wednesday morning and ran down the Bhote Koshi into the Trishuli and the Narayani.

Friday's bulletin also gave a new district breakdown that for the first time adds up to the full 469: Chitwan 178, Nawalparasi East 110, Gorkha 44, Nuwakot 37, Dhading 33, Tanahun 28, Nawalparasi West 27 and Rasuwa 12. Health facilities in Chitwan, which has the most bodies, can hold only around 50 at a time, which is slowing identification and release to families.

NDRRMA's 6:20pm update on Thursday listed 910 people out of contact in Nepal, up from 826 that morning, 570 of them tourists. Nepal's tourism board says 517 of the missing are foreign nationals, from 33 countries. Out of contact does not mean dead. Phone lines, power and internet are down across the valley and are coming back slowly.

China's Ministry of Water Resources says a new barrier lake near the Chhochen Khola and Purepu Tsangpo, close to the Nepal border, is already overflowing and holds about 2 million cubic metres of water. It expects another 3 million cubic metres to flow in over three days from Thursday, putting the lake at high risk of breaching in that time. This is separate from the smaller lake NDRRMA found earlier on the Lhende river. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV says 555 tourists and nearly 500 local residents have been evacuated from the Tibet side near the border, ABC News reports.

USGS first read the shaking on Wednesday as an earthquake. It later found no earthquake took place. The signal came from an ice and rock avalanche that fell into the Lhende Khola on the Tibet side, dammed the river, then broke.

Nepal's Army says more than 5,000 army and police personnel are working the flood zone, from Nuwakot to Chitwan. Prime Minister Balendra Shah travelled to Bidur in Nuwakot on Thursday to see the damage.

In India, the NDRF and the Sashastra Seema Bal have rescue teams on standby in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, and the NDRF says the Gandak, which the Narayani becomes downstream, could see higher water levels. Nepal has turned down offers of search and rescue teams from India, China, the US, Britain, Japan, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, the Kathmandu Post reports. The government says its own army and police can handle the operation and is asking instead for cash, through a single channel into the Prime Minister's Disaster Relief Fund.

Keep off the banks of the Bhote Koshi, the Trishuli and the Narayani until officials say it is clear.

Sources for this briefing

• Nepal Police
• ABC News Australia
• Onlinekhabar
• The Kathmandu Post
• ICIMOD
• Business Standard
• ANI
• The Kathmandu Post

Written and checked by hand against the sources above. Figures are attributed to the bulletin they came from; where two sources disagreed, the lower confirmed figure was used. If something here is wrong, tell us and it gets corrected or removed.