Nepal urges villagers to evacuate after flood triggered by landslide, 5 missing
Authorities evacuated riverside communities and deployed rescue teams after the landslide-breached river sent floodwaters through homes, bridges and a hydropower project.
- On Sunday, October 11, 2026, a flash flood swept down the Budhi Gandaki River in Nepal's Gorkha district, destroying homes and bridges as authorities issued urgent evacuation warnings to downstream communities.
- A landslide in Chumnubri Rural Municipality blocked a tributary early Sunday morning, creating a dam that breached and released a violent surge of water downstream, devastating settlements along the river.
- Preliminary reports indicate nearly 35 houses and six bridges were swept away, while floodwaters damaged the 341-megawatt Budhi Gandaki hydropower project in Salleri. Officials confirmed 49 people were rescued, though at least 10 remain missing.
- The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority deployed helicopters and ground forces to evacuate residents, while warning communities in Gorkha, Dhading, Tanahun, and Chitwan to move to higher ground immediately.
- This disaster follows catastrophic floods in August 2026 that killed more than 1,400 people and caused $4.7 billion in damages, underscoring Nepal's extreme vulnerability to sudden hydrological shifts in its mountainous river valleys.
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KATMANDÚ, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers from the Nepal Army arrived on Monday in an area affected by a sudden flood, following the disaster the day before.
Rescuers from the Nepalese army today arrived in the villages affected by the flash flood that swept the area along the Budhi Gandaki river in central Nepal a day earlier.
The rage of the water overwhelms the buildings and drags away everything it encounters. The dramatic images come from the district of Gorkha, Nepal, where a sudden flood of the river Budhi Gandaki has hit the surrounding areas, destroying buildings and dragging huge quantities of mud and debris to the valley. The current bursts between the buildings and knocks them down under the pressure of water. According to the first information, no casualti…
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