Rasuwa–Bhotekoshi Flood: Situation Summary 

From NDRRMA Situation Report #13 (English series), as of 19:00, 14 September 2026 — compared  against 13 September figures (NDRRMA प्रतिकार्यस्थिति प्रतिवेदन #२३, Nepali series, 19:00) Note on figures: all numbers are provisional and government-published. 

What Happened 

The most significant development is procedural rather than numerical: NDRRMA describes the search and-rescue, drone and K9 deployment along the full 218km river corridor from Timure to Triveni as  completed, a shift from the “ongoing” framing used as recently as 12 September, when 1,986 police  personnel were still being actively deployed along that same stretch. Individual hydropower-site  

searches continue (see below), but the district-wide corridor sweep appears to have wound down. Missing persons held flat at 5,130 for a fourth consecutive report (11–14 September), the longest  static stretch in this series so far. Bodies recovered rose to 1,395 (+7), and total rescued moved  again after two flat days, reaching 13,737 (+9). 

Today’s report also carries far more sectoral detail than recent editions: first-time granular figures on  DNA/forensic processing, a new Criminal Investigation and Law Enforcement section, and a  substantially expanded Education Sector and Shelter and Camp Management Sector. Whether this  reflects a genuine broadening of NDRRMA’s reporting or simply data that hadn’t previously been  compiled for public release isn’t stated. 

Headline Figures

Casualties and Missing 

District breakdown of deaths: Chitwan 364, Nawalparasi East 232 (+3 vs. 13 Sep’s 229), Nawalparasi  West 222, Nuwakot 202 (+3), Rasuwa 186 (+1), Gorkha 77, Dhading 72 (+2), Tanahun 38, during  treatment in Kathmandu 2. Total 1,395. 

Missing components are reported identically to the past several days: Nuwakot 651 local + 1,136 from  other districts; Rasuwa 1,393 local + 1,286 from other districts + 45 Nepal Army + 12 Nepal Police + 26  APF + government officials/bank employees; foreign nationals 587. Total 5,130, with 104 identified  bodies already deducted. The fact that every individual component (not just the total) has held identical  for four consecutive reports suggests this data hasn’t genuinely been re-verified since around 10–11  September, rather than that missing-persons work has stalled. 

Search and Rescue at Hydropower Sites 

• Rasuwagadhi (120MW): Joint CQRT/project team reached the powerhouse, transformer room and  control room; SAR ongoing. The equipment-transport difficulty flagged yesterday (heavy equipment  hard to move given the terrain) is restated. No personnel count is given today, a departure from  yesterday’s specific Nepal-5/Australian DART-4 figure. 
• Langtang (20MW): The blocked entrance (10m long, 3ft wide, 4ft high) is still being cleared. New:  a joint Nepali Army/Chinese DART team entered approximately 170m into the tunnel and searched  with a thermal drone, finding nothing, a more specific depth than any previous Langtang update.
• Chilime (22MW): Track construction for heavy equipment access is now reported complete. Debris  clearing has progressed to ~90m inside (up from ~70m yesterday). New complication: water flowing  out has left only 1.5–2ft of overhead clearance in mud/slurry, so teams are entering by rope until the  water can be pumped out. The Nepal Army/Indian Army personnel-count discrepancy that has shifted  across the last three reports isn’t mentioned at all today, neither resolved nor repeated. 
• Upper Trishuli-1 (Audit-3): Water still gushing from Audit-3, risk remains elevated. The 5-person  Nepal Army team’s 200m search of Audit-1 at Hakubesi (no findings) is restated verbatim from prior  reports. As with Chilime, no personnel figure is given for today’s Audit-3 operation, so yesterday’s  resolved 1 Nepal Army + 9 Australian figure isn’t confirmed or contradicted, simply absent. 
• Trishuli 3A (60MW): The rainfall-triggered landslide blocking the tunnel mouth (first reported 13  September) is still being manually cleared; not yet resolved. 
• Trishuli 3B (37MW): A genuine clarification here. Excavation has reached 2m below the 653m  river-surface elevation and has located the foundation of the project’s office building, but explicitly  found no structural remnants of the residential compound (Buildings A1, A2, B1, B2 and D). This  resolves the ambiguity carried since 12 September, when a building base was reported found without  specifying which structure; it now appears that claim referred to the office building, not worker  housing. 

DNA Sample Collection and Forensic Examination 

(new level of detail) 

3,139 total samples collected: 1,286 from remains, 1,853 from relatives. Relative samples have been  collected from 62 locations nationwide, with 59% from the Kathmandu Valley alone. Of these, 1,661  samples have gone to the Nepal Police Central Forensic Science Laboratory and 1,496 to the National  Forensic Science Laboratory (Khumaltar). International forensic teams from India, South Korea,  Singapore, China and the United States have begun testing 1,205 blood samples and 202 bone/tooth  samples. This is the most granular forensic breakdown published in this series to date. 

Criminal Investigation and Law Enforcement 

(new section) 

• In Narayangadh: 2 people arrested for stealing valuables from deceased bodies in Dhading; 29 arrested  for breaking open a flood-swept safe and looting cash (NPR 9,268,505 recovered); 1 arrested for  concealing gold jewellery. 
• 1 person arrested for fraudulent fundraising under the guise of a relief fund; 1 detained for inciting  racial/ethnic hatred on social media. 
• 173 posts “disrupting social harmony” flagged across digital media, 88 removed. Note: 173 is the  identical figure Cyber Bureau reported flagged as of 11 September (when 83 had been removed);  today’s removed count is +5 on that same base figure. Whether this means no new posts have been  flagged in three days, or the 173 is simply a stale carry-over with only the removal count updated, isn’t  clear from the report. 

Roads, Electricity, Communications and WASH

• Prithvi Highway: Ongoing clearing/maintenance to keep Krishnabhir, Parewa Bhir and Sheetal  Bazar sections operational. Notably, Krishnabhir is no longer described as “fully obstructed,” though  the report doesn’t explicitly say it has reopened either. 
• Bidur–Betrawati: Still 9.2 of 10km clear; hard-rock cutting and gravelling continue on the final  0.8km, unchanged in status. 
• Devighat/Tadi River bridge: New clarification — the damaged bridge referred to in recent  “Devighat Bridge” updates is the Tadi River bridge specifically, distinct from the temporary Acrow  bridge already in operation there. A detour via Pipaltar–Pasang Lhamu Highway–Niranjana– Baghkhor–Deurali–Kolputar is carrying traffic in the meantime. Separately, Bailey Bridge  installation at this same Tadi River crossing is now reported fully complete, while the Betrawati  (Phalakhu Khola) Bailey Bridge has only reached foundation construction. 
• Electricity: Dhading now fully restored district-wide, with the Jaharsab Substation (addressing a  low-voltage issue) brought online yesterday. Nuwakot is restored except flood-affected Betrawati; a  stabiliser has been installed for the Bidur water-supply pumps and a 3.36kW solar system for Trishuli  Hospital. Rasuwa remains flat at approximately 80% of households, unchanged for several days  running. New: a plan is being discussed to extend power to Rasuwa’s Ward No. 3 from the 100kW  Langtang Micro-Hydro plant in Gosaikunda-4, pending local consensus. 
• Fuel: See figures table. The report separately states 145,000 litres of aviation fuel were supplied  “today” to Nuwakot Barracks on top of an existing 15,000-litre stock, a very large delivery that  doesn’t obviously reconcile with the dashboard’s 11,000-litre air-fuel figure (down from 15,000  yesterday). This may be a difference in scope (barracks stock vs. district-wide dashboard total) that  the report doesn’t explain. 
• Communications: Nepal Telecom 117/120, Ncell 76/78, unchanged. Chilime Khola, Trishuli 3B and  Uttargaya-1 (Tiru) remain without service due to power shortages, also unchanged. Food Security, Relief and Shelter 
• Rice: of 589,000kg total, 193,000kg allocated to Nuwakot (35,852kg remaining), 207,000kg to  Dhading (21,028kg remaining), 99,900kg to Rasuwa (78,910kg remaining). 
• Lentils: of 190,000kg total, 50,000kg each to Nuwakot and Dhading, 27,000kg to Rasuwa. • 45,000 litres cooking oil and 75,000kg salt distributed across the three districts by priority. • Government cash relief scheme (first reported 13 September) is restated in full: NPR 15,000/month for  

families of up to 4 who opt out of holding centres, plus NPR 2,000/month per additional member, for  up to 6 months. 

• Additional SAR equipment budget also restated: NPR 90 million to Nepal Army, NPR 60 million each  to Nepal Police and APF Nepal. 

Shelter and Camp Management (newly detailed as a phased plan):  

1-room, 2-room and 3/4-room model shelter designs and cost estimates are complete; 3 coordination  meetings have brought in 11+ humanitarian organisations. NDRRMA frames the work in four phases:  Phase 1 (holding-centre provisioning, ongoing), Phase 2 (safe-site identification via Rapid Multi-Hazard  Assessments, underway), Phase 3 (structured camps with WASH/electricity/healthcare/security, targeted  for the next 2 weeks, with standards set at 15L water/person/day and 1 toilet per 20 people at a 3:1  female-to-male ratio), and Phase 4 (transitional shelter construction using prefabricated units, targeted  for 4–10 weeks out). 

Education Sector

(substantially expanded) 

18 educational institutions damaged (13 fully, 5 partially); 45 school buildings and 268 classrooms fully  destroyed. 24 teachers and 500 students are reported missing, a grim new figure not previously  published. Learning continuity has been disrupted for 9,430 students, 1,372 of them displaced; 25  schools are currently being used as emergency shelters, which itself complicates reopening them as  schools. 

All 6 affected institutions in Dhading have resumed operations. Of 68 Temporary Learning Centres  (TLCs) needed, 13 are established (30-student capacity each). 860 Student Kits, 27 School Kits and 13  Early Childhood Educational Development Kits have been distributed. Notably for Rasuwa: Uttargaya  Rural Municipality plans to board 250 students at Neelakantha Secondary School, directly relevant to  RRN’s own Uttargaya operations, where field teams have already flagged student educational-supply  needs as an emerging priority. 

Remaining targets: 46 more TLCs, 82 temporary toilets, restoration of 55 water supplies, textbooks for  3,232 students, 194 desktops and 144 laptops, 4,561 sets of classroom furniture, and weekly  psychosocial counselling/child-safeguarding sessions across affected schools for three months. Health Sector 

34 Emergency Medical Teams deployed to date; 28 demobilised, 6 remain active (5 Armed Police Force,  1 E-Piners Nepal), with 4 more on standby. 149 medical personnel have served 7,707 people overall  (135 in the last 24 hours). Holding centres received health/psychosocial services for 519 people in the  last 24 hours. MHPSS: 137 personnel mobilised (135 field, 17 helpline, a sum of 152 against a stated  total of 137, likely overlapping categories rather than an error worth chasing). 26 people have used the  free Nepal Red Cross ambulance service via its Nuwakot Chapter. 

Prepared by Rural Reconstruction Nepal (RRN). For internal and partner circulation. 12 September  2026. Figures provisional and subject to revision by NDRRMA. USD conversions approximate. NEOC  toll-free: 1234.