Archived event
Latest reported figures: 1,222 confirmed dead
This briefing has been overtaken
It was published at 2 September 2026, 8:00 pm NPT and is kept online as the record of what was confirmed at that hour. Figures in it are no longer current.
Read the latest briefing: Bhotekoshi flood leaves 1,204 dead; 4,216 still unaccounted for · Current event summary
These figures are read automatically from the published reports as they appear, and are not written or checked by hand. confirmed dead: 1,222, up from 1,204, reported by Nepal Police. rescued: 11,993, up from 8,730, reported by Nepalnews.
Where a report describes one district or one stretch of river rather than the national figure, it is not used here. Out of contact does not mean dead.
Sources for this briefing
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.