Rasuwa–Bhotekoshi Flood: Consolidated Status Summary 

Internal / Partner Situation Summary • Data as of 19:00, 6 September 2026 (Bhadra 21, 2083) Sources: (1) NDRRMA Situation Report English #06, as of 19:00, 6 September 2026, including its  embedded Search, Rescue and Relief Update dashboard; (2) RRN Situation Summary of 5  September 2026, drawn from NDRRMA Situation Report #15 as of 19:00, 5 September 2026, used  as the comparison baseline.  

Note on figures: all numbers are provisional and government-published. 

1. What happened 

No live rescues are reported today. Every hydropower site that reported a search outcome —  Rasuwagadhi, Chilime, Trishuli 3-A and Trishuli 3-B — records that no persons or other  relevant findings were located. Search depths at three of those sites are now stated as shorter than  in the previous report, which is discussed in Section 6. The single most consequential new item is  preventive rather than operational: 21,000 doses of Oral Cholera Vaccine were transported to  Rasuwa today as preparedness against a potential cholera outbreak, confirming the public health concern implied by yesterday’s surge of hygiene and cholera-prevention materials. The  36th meeting of the Executive Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management was  convened to review operations and future action plans, and a Resettlement and Shelter Management  Action Plan 2083 is being prepared for the relocation of holding-centre populations into transitional  shelter — the first indication in this series of planning beyond the emergency phase. NDRRMA also  escalates its framing of the Krishnabhir obstruction, describing it as disrupting the supply chain to  Kathmandu and other major cities across the country.  

2. Headline Figures at a Glance

Indicator	5 Sep, 19:00	6 Sep, 19:00
Bodies recovered	1,331	1,342 (+11)
Missing / out of contact	4,896	4,896 (unchanged)
Hospital-treated patients	316	323 (+7)
— discharged	210	227
— under treatment	72	62
— referred	30	30

 

Indicator	5 Sep, 19:00	6 Sep, 19:00
— deaths during treatment	4	4
“Injured” combined figure	5,929	6,083 (+154)
Total rescued to date	13,101	13,391 (+290)
Total air operations, cumulative	973 (92 today)	1,049 (73 today)
Private sector flights from Kathmandu	129	129 (unchanged)
Security personnel deployed	21,465	21,465 (unchanged)
Cash relief released (total)	NPR 160 million	NPR 160 million (unchanged)
Identified bodies handed to families	98	98 (unchanged)
People in holding centres	3,912 or 4,112 (39 centres)	3,533 (39 centres)

 

Bodies recovered rose by 11, the smallest daily increase recorded in this series. Total rescued rose by  290 and the combined injured figure by 154, the latter driven almost entirely by Armed Police Force  medical treatment, which rose by 146. Security personnel, private flights, cash relief and dead-body  

handovers were all flat, and cash relief has now been unchanged for six consecutive rounds.  Holding-centre occupancy fell by between 379 and 579 people depending on which of yesterday’s  two conflicting Nuwakot figures is used as the baseline; the centre count held at 39.  

3. Human Casualties 

District	5 Sep, 19:00	6 Sep, 19:00	Change
Chitwan	360	362	+2
Nawalparasi East	222	222	–
Nawalparasi West	219	220	+1
Nuwakot	195	195	–
Rasuwa	156	163	+7
Gorkha	74	74	–
Dhading	67	68	+1
Tanahun	38	38	–
Total (as stated)	1,331	1,342	+11

 

The district figures sum exactly to the stated total, as they did yesterday. Rasuwa accounts for the  majority of the increase, with seven further bodies recovered; Nuwakot, Nawalparasi East, Gorkha  and Tanahun are unchanged. Identified bodies handed over to families remain at 98, meaning no  handovers were completed today while eleven further bodies were recovered. NDRRMA continues  to direct enquiries on unidentified bodies to the Nepal Police disaster portal.  

4. Missing / Out of Contact

Category	5 Sep, 19:00	6 Sep, 19:00
Nuwakot (DEOC)	2,340	2,340
Rasuwa (DEOC)	1,967	1,967
Missing foreign nationals	589	589 (bar chart) / 583 (donut  chart)

 

Category	5 Sep, 19:00	6 Sep, 19:00
Security personnel and officials, of which	~100	~100
Total (as stated)	4,896	4,896

 

5. Injured and Hospital Treatment 

5.1 Daily Comparison 

Component	5 Sep, 19:00	6 Sep, 19:00
Hospital-treated patients	316	323
Nepal Army medical treatment, cumulative	3,297	3,298
APF medical treatment, cumulative	2,316	2,462
Combined “Injured” total, as headlined	5,929	6,083

 

5.2 Treatment by Health Facility 

6 September, 19:00 (19 facilities). Figures in brackets are the 5 September values where they differ.

Health Facility	Total	Under Tx.	Referred	Discharged	Deaths
Rasuwa District Hospital, Dhunche	81	–	27	53	1
Trishuli Hospital, Bidur, Nuwakot	18	1	1	15	1
Ayurvedic Hospital, Pipaltaar, Nuwakot	20	– (1)	–	20 (19)	–
National Trauma Center, Mahabouddha	50	11 (12)	1	37 (36)	1
Shree Birendra Hospital, Chhauni	4 (3)	4 (3)	–	–	–
TUTH, Kathmandu	80 (79)	30 (29)	–	49	1
NAMS/Bir Hospital, Mahabouddha	23 (22)	4 (8)	–	19 (14)	–
Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lalitpur	1	–	–	1	–
Paropakar Maternity & Women’s, Thapathali	16 (14)	4 (12)	–	12 (2)	–
Nepal APF Hospital, Balambu	7 (6)	2 (1)	–	5	–
Manmohan Memorial Medical College,  Swyambhu	3	–	–	3	–
Norvic International Hospital, Thapathali	3	–	–	3	–
Subham International Hospital, Manmaiju	3	–	–	3	–
Greencity Hospital, Tokha	4 (3)	2 (1)	1	1	–
HAMS, Dhumbarahi	1	–	–	1	–
Chirayu National Hospital, Basundhara	2	1	–	1	–
Grande International Hospital, Tokha	3	1	–	2	–
BNB Hospital, Gwarko	3	1	–	2	–
Dhading Hospital Pvt. Ltd., Adamghat, Gajuri	1	1	–	–	–
Total (headline)	323	62	30	227	4

 

5.3 Psychosocial Support 

A total of 150 personnel have been deployed to the affected areas through the Ministry of Health for  psychosocial counselling. This is a substantially larger figure than the 22-member team reported on 4  September, and is presented at national scale rather than as a Nuwakot-specific deployment.  

6. Search and Rescue at Hydropower Project Sites 

No persons were located alive or dead at any site reporting an outcome today. The report now  presents sites in a structured table with installed capacity, which is a presentational improvement, but  three sites record shorter search penetration than the previous round.  

Project	Depth, 5 Sep	Depth, 6 Sep	Outcome today
Rasuwagadhi (120 MW)	~275 m	~225 m	No findings
Upper Trishuli-1 (216 MW)	not stated	~180 m (Audit Tunnel 4)	One rescue restated
Chilime (22 MW)	~170 m	~110 m	No findings
Trishuli 3-A (60 MW)	160 m	not stated	No findings
Langtang (20 MW)	150 m	not stated	Ongoing
Trishuli 3-B (37 MW)	30 m	not stated	No findings
Mailung Khola (5 MW)	not stated	not stated	Ongoing

 

• Rasuwagadhi: the team entered approximately 225 metres using water pumps, generators and  halogen lights before large boulders obstructed further access. An alternative route was then  identified and searches were conducted as far as the powerhouse, control point and transformer  room, with no persons or relevant findings located. The reduction from 275 metres almost certainly  reflects a different measurement or a partial withdrawal at the boulder obstruction rather than lost  ground, but NDRRMA does not say which.  
• Chilime: a joint team of Nepal Army, Indian Army and project representatives entered  approximately 110 metres, with no findings. This is the first reference to Indian Army participation  in this series, and replaces the international SAR and CSSR composition reported previously. The  stated depth is 60 metres shorter than yesterday.  
• Upper Trishuli-1: a 32-member joint team of the Nepal Army and the Korean Disaster Relief Team  drained water from the tunnel using pumps, entered approximately 180 metres through Audit Tunnel  4, and rescued one Chinese national alive, who was transported to Shree Birendra Hospital, Chhauni.  Separately, a joint Nepal Army and Chinese rescue team conducted thermal-drone operations in the  

Mailung area.  

• Trishuli 3-B: a joint team with three Bobcats excavated approximately 10 feet along the bank of  the Trishuli River without locating any project structures. The access route from Audit Tunnel 1 to  Audit Tunnel 2 has been cleared with personnel and a JCB excavator. Searches for buried houses and  missing persons continue.  
• Trishuli 3-A: searches were conducted in the tunnel and powerhouse areas with no findings, and  operations continue. No depth is given, and the two live rescues reported here yesterday are not  restated.  

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Other search and rescue activity 

• A joint Nepal Army, Nepal Police and Armed Police Force team conducted search and body  recovery in the Bahraghumti, Bokejhunda, Syabrubesi and Goljung areas of Rasuwa District.  • Nepal Army ground forces are conducting operations at 19 separate locations across Nuwakot  District, supported by patrol teams reaching all identified locations. 
• Personnel counts have been restated after being absent yesterday: approximately 485 Nepal Police  mobilised, including a 10-member technical drone team, up from approximately 459 on 4  September; and approximately 387 Armed Police Force personnel, down from approximately 450 on  4 September.  
• Two canine teams are deployed: an APF team of two search-and-rescue dogs, and a Nepal Police  team of two dogs with four handlers and 12 additional personnel working the Trishuli–Betrawati  area. The Nepal Police canine team was previously reported in the Mailung area.  • A 55-member team is installing a bridge over the Tadi River at Devighat and has completed 130  feet of work toward the nose section as part of the launching operation.  
• A trolley cable system has been installed across the approximately 155-metre width of the Trishuli  River connecting Devighat and Sirkhauli. Following a successful technical test it was put into  operation on 5 September, establishing a supply route to cut-off areas.  

7. Access, Infrastructure and Communications 

Roads 

• Prithvi Highway, Mugling–Malekhu: Krishnabhir remains completely obstructed by toe cutting.  Approximately 250 metres of road track has been opened by hillside excavation, with widening and  restoration ongoing. Parewa Bhir remains closed from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM for repair, and Shital  Bazaar operates one-way where the road has subsided. This position is unchanged from yesterday,  but NDRRMA now characterises the obstruction as disrupting the supply chain to Kathmandu  and other major cities nationally.  
• Tribhuvan Highway: obstructed by landslides near Nagdhunga and Pataleban, operating one-way;  traffic has resumed through the Nagdhunga Tunnel. Nagdhunga is named as an obstruction point for  the first time.  
• Galchhi–Devighat: cleaning and debris removal continue near Thuli Khola, and back-cutting  works have commenced in the Ratmate area, which is new. Assessment and implementation for the  Kolphu Bridge repair remain underway, with no advance on yesterday’s position.  • Bidur–Betrawati: 8.5 of 10 kilometres cleared and reopened, up from 8 kilometres. The remaining  1.5 kilometres is completely washed away and a new track is under construction, with approximately  0.5 kilometres requiring hard-rock cutting. Landslide and muddy or marshy conditions continue to  affect both the new and existing tracks.  
• Rasuwa alternative route via Dhikure and the Pasang Lhamu Highway: maintenance continues  under the Road Division Office, with vehicular movement expected to resume from tomorrow  following track rehabilitation and gravel placement. This is consistent with yesterday’s projection.  • The Dhading connecting route, the alternative to the Devighat bridge via Pipaltar, and the Trishuli  River right-bank section via Kalleritar and Gauribesi all remain operational with maintenance  ongoing.  

Devighat bridge — three inconsistent descriptions: the search and rescue section describes an  Acrow bridge under installation; the roads section describes a 75-metre Bailey bridge being  transported from Gajuri with construction initiated; and the previous two reports described a 55- metre Bailey bridge. Acrow is a manufacturer of modular panel bridges of the Bailey type, so the  naming may be interchangeable, but the span has changed from 55 to 75 metres without explanation  and the reported stage of works is not consistent between the two sections of the same report.  Electricity and Fuel 

• Nuwakot: electricity supply has been restored to 613 households in Bidur Municipality Ward 3 and  511 households in Belkotgadhi Municipality Ward 8 — precisely the two ward populations listed as  without power on 4 September. Overall restoration in Nuwakot is now approximately 98 per cent, up  from 96.7 per cent yesterday. 
• No restoration percentage is given for Dhading or Rasuwa in this round, and the alternative-energy  programme reported yesterday (13 office-use and 500 household-use solar systems, and 1,268  Rasuwa households identified for solar distribution) is not restated.  
• Rasuwa: private suppliers transported 3,000 litres each of petrol and diesel in drums to designated  fuel stations, tanker access being constrained. This is identical to the volume reported on 4  September and may be a restatement rather than a fresh delivery.  
• Fuel stock is reported at two incompatible scopes. The dashboard gives diesel 39,000 litres, petrol  15,000 litres and aviation fuel 14,000 litres. The narrative gives Nuwakot District stocks of diesel  47,000 litres, petrol 18,000 litres and aviation fuel 18,000 litres. The district figures exceed the  dashboard figures in every category, so the dashboard cannot be a corridor-wide total that includes  them.  

Telecommunications 

No telecommunications section appears in this report. The BTS tower counts, the satellite phone and  terminal deployments, the emergency hotline capacity and the internet service restoration lists  reported on 5 September are all absent, so no assessment of connectivity can be made for today.  

8. Relief Distribution, Cash Support and Holding Centres 

Cash Relief (unchanged for a sixth consecutive round) 

Recipient	Figure
Rasuwa	NPR 10 million
Nuwakot	NPR 10 million
Dhading	NPR 5 million
15 affected local governments	NPR 135 million
Total	NPR 160 million (~USD 1,049,900)

 

Relief Dispatch 

The cumulative dispatch series is discontinued in this round. The truck and Bolero totals, the  cumulative helicopter flights for relief supplies and the cumulative APF relief flights — 83, 38, 9 and  173 respectively on 5 September — are not restated, and only same-day activity is given: one  helicopter transported food supplies and essentials to Rasuwa, and four trucks carried generators,  hygiene kits and student kits to affected areas. Continuity of the cumulative series cannot be  maintained from this report alone.  

Holding Centres 

District	5 Sep, 19:00	6 Sep, 19:00
Rasuwa	960 (12 centres)	669 (12 centres)
Nuwakot	2,714 or 2,914 (25 centres)	2,651 (25 centres)
Dhading	238 (2 centres)	213 (2 centres)
Total	3,912 or 4,112 (39 centres)	3,533 (39 centres)

 

A Resettlement and Shelter Management Action Plan 2083 is being prepared for the relocation of  holding-centre populations into transitional shelter. This is the first reference in this series to a  planned transition out of emergency accommodation and should be tracked closely in subsequent  rounds. 

Itemised Relief Dispatched from Tribhuvan International Airport, 20 Bhadra (5 September) 

Category	Item	Unit	DAO   Dhading	DAO Rasuwa	Nuwakot   Bidur DCC   Hall
Household / NFI	Mug	pcs	0	919	0
WASH	Hygiene Kit Special with  Cloth Bag	set	0	963	0
WASH	PIYUSH Liquid	bottle	0	750	0
Fuel & Energy	Generator	pcs	0	0	1
Logistics & Operational  Support	Office Table	pcs	0	0	20
Other / Specialized	ECD Kits	box	6	0	0
Other / Specialized	Recreation Kit	pc	0	24	0
Other / Specialized	Student Kits	pcs/box	628	0	0

 

9. Physical and Economic Damage Assessment 

Not restated for a second consecutive report. The initial physical damage assessment introduced on 4  September — 7,570 private houses, 48 government structures, 18 schools, 7 health facilities, 55  kilometres of road, and 37 motorable plus 68 suspension bridges — does not appear, nor do the  preliminary economic damage estimate of NPR 38,754.68 crore, the early recovery requirement of  NPR 795.3 crore, or the directly impacted population figure of 32,963. With a resettlement action  plan now under preparation, the absence of an updated damage baseline is a material gap for partners  planning recovery support.  

10. Coordination and Command 

• The 36th meeting of the Executive Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management was  convened to review ongoing search, rescue and relief operations and to discuss the way forward and  future action plans. No decisions are detailed. This is a different body from the Monsoon Response  Command Post, whose 13th meeting was reported on 4 September; the two numbering series should  not be conflated.  
• Daily Monsoon Response Command Post meetings and Mobilization Team briefings continue,  reviewing responsibilities under the respective Terms of Reference, progress, emerging issues and  remedial efforts. As on 5 September, no meeting number, chair or decisions are given.  • NDRRMA’s Situation Room maintains daily contact with each local government and ward to  prepare municipality-level Report Cards capturing current situation and identified needs.  • Relief assistance is being prioritised to affected populations and local governments cut off from  transport access, with support from government agencies, the private sector, national and  international organisations, civil society and local communities.  

11. Ongoing Risk and Information Gaps 

Cholera preparedness. The transport of 21,000 Oral Cholera Vaccine doses to Rasuwa today is the  clearest statement yet of outbreak risk in the holding-centre and flood-affected population. Read  alongside yesterday’s dispatch of cholera-prevention and hygiene materials, and today’s further  consignment of hygiene kits and PIYUSH water treatment to Rasuwa, this indicates an active  preventive campaign rather than a response to confirmed cases. No case numbers, surveillance data  or vaccination coverage targets are published, and partners should press for them. 

Lhende Khola dammed lake. First noted in RRN’s 31 August summary, the dammed lake near  Rasuwagadhi is not mentioned for a seventh consecutive report. Search teams entered approximately  225 metres into the Rasuwagadhi tunnel today. This remains an information gap in NDRRMA  reporting rather than a resolution of the risk, and it is the single most consequential outstanding item  in this series.  

Sector reporting withdrawn. The Water Supply and Sanitation and Education sections introduced  on 5 September do not appear in this report, nor does any telecommunications reporting. Sections in  this series are appearing and disappearing between rounds rather than being carried forward and  updated, which makes trend analysis in the sectors unreliable. Partners relying on a single report for  sector status should treat absence as absence of reporting, not as absence of activity.  

Supply chain. NDRRMA now describes the Krishnabhir obstruction as disrupting the supply chain  to Kathmandu and other major cities across the country — a national-scale framing not used in  earlier rounds, and one that extends the significance of this response well beyond the three affected  districts.  

Prepared by Rural Reconstruction Nepal (RRN) • For internal and partner circulation • 6  September 2026. Figures provisional and subject to revision by NDRRMA. USD conversions  approximate, at NPR 152.4/USD. NEOC toll-free: 1234.