Gruesome images have emerged from Nepal after devastating floods and landslides swept away buildings and bridges, leaving at least 95 people dead and hundreds missing.
One video, captured by a CCTV camera, shows a massive mudslide crashing into Gyirong port on the China-Nepal border as people desperately flee the area.
Within seconds, the scene is engulfed by mud and water, causing vehicles and buses to fly and tear through infrastructure as the water flows through the area.
Another video, filmed from a bus, shows people running as a wall of water rushes towards them.
Passengers can be heard screaming and crying as the bus reaches higher ground, watching in horror as the water continues to rise.
A separate CCTV video from the Rasuwagadhi border point on the Nepal-Tibet border shows people fleeing a new mudslide flooding the area.
The current threw buses and cars into the air and smashed through a parking lot barrier as it tore through the terrain in apocalyptic scenes.
One disturbing clip shows construction workers with a crane on a mountainside near the river desperately trying to escape as water rushes toward them, while people scream on higher ground.
Another video shows the moment the Bhote Koshi river swells and overflows, as the current topples surrounding houses.
CCTV footage shows people running away as a wall of mud and water destroys buildings in a valley on the Nepal-China border, in Gyirong, Tibet region, China, August 26, 2026
One video, filmed from a bus, shows people running as a wall of water rushes toward them
The current threw buses and cars into the air and smashed through a parking lot barrier as it tore through the grounds in apocalyptic scenes
One video shows the moment the Bhote Koshi River swells and overflows, as the current topples surrounding houses
Hundreds of people are missing as a result of deadly floods in Nepal, which wiped out large swaths of infrastructure
One disturbing clip shows construction workers with a crane on a mountainside near the river, desperately trying to escape
Within moments the tap is flooded by the flowing water.
Experts believe a magnitude 4.4 earthquake caused an ice avalanche that in turn blocked the Lhende River. Water then collected behind the blockage before bursting downstream with devastating consequences.
There are fears that a second flood could inundate Nepal, Tibet and neighboring countries India to further chaos.
Flood warnings were issued in the densely populated northern Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, which border Nepal and have several rivers flowing through the mountains into their plains.
Nepali officials said as many as 384 tourists and trekkers are missing, comprising 291 foreigners and 93 Nepali citizens.
The missing include 12 from Britain, 105 Indian nationals, and four from South Africa17 from Malaysia and three from the United States. One from Australia and the The Netherlands are also not mentioned.
South Korea said eight of its citizens are missing, while another 12 are stranded due to the deadly floods.
The nationalities of another 100 people have not yet been determined, while another 37 people are believed to be non-resident Indians living in Nepal.
Qianggong Zhang, head of climate and environmental risks at the Kathmandu-based International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, warned that the region could be threatened again.
He said: ‘With a blockage still in place upstream on the Nepal-China border river, authorities are warning that a second flood could occur.’
Search operations are currently underway on both sides of the Tibet-Nepal border.
Authorities deployed nearly 600 rescue workers at Gyirong port.
But a rescue worker told Chinese media it would take at least four hours for the team to reach the site due to the five-foot-deep sediment blocking paths to the affected area.
The debris had come upstream from the Nepalese side of the crossing, the rescuer said.
The Nepal Army said 14 helicopters and disaster response teams have been deployed for rescue and relief efforts.
But officials said waters were too high for helicopters to land in the affected areas of Syapru Besi and Timure in the mountainous Rasuwa district, with a population of about 50,000.
Nepal’s rescue helicopters would not be able to land in the affected areas until the waters recede, army spokesman Raja Ram Basnet said.
“There could be heavy casualties or loss of property,” district administrator Narendra Pariyar told Reuters.
“But I can’t say that for sure right now.” Pariyar urged those living on the banks of the Bhote Koshi river in the area to seek higher ground, citing reports that nearby villages and infrastructure projects had been washed away.
“It all came suddenly,” the Onlinekhabar portal quoted a witness from the area. ‘We heard a loud noise, like a volcano erupting. People started screaming and running away.”
Around 60 houses in the Trishuli Bazaar area were swept away, while nearby Devighat was also badly hit. Two bridges over the nearby Trishuli River were also washed away.
Nepalese media reported that 60 workers from an under-construction hydropower project were missing due to the floods.
The staff working at the Langtang Khola Hydroelectric Project in Rasuwa has not been taken into account.
Local media reported that workers were “carrying out concrete construction work in a tunnel,” adding: “The flood caused serious damage to the project.”
Rasuwa is home to several hydroelectric power stations. Nepal’s energy ministry said 430 MW of electricity supply was affected, mainly from hydropower projects, or more than 12% of the country’s total 3.2 GW hydropower capacity, a Reuters calculation showed.
Damaged houses stand perilously close to the swollen, debris-choked banks of the Trishuli River
Police officers carry a survivor to a safer place after a flash flood at Trishuli in Nuwakot district, Nepal
Residents look at homes partially submerged in muddy water after flash floods
Rescue workers use an earthmover to transport a flash flood victim
The mudslide on the Nepalese side hit the Chinese port of Gyirong, cutting off roads, communications and power in the Shigatse region near the Nepal border.
“I saw the flood sweep away eight or nine trucks, along with houses and people,” Suman Chalise, a 34-year-old teacher, told AFP in Nuwakot district.
‘It was absolutely heartbreaking. I had never witnessed such devastation before.”
A Chinese businessman told the BBC that his logistics company has seven container trucks in the flash flood area, all manned by Nepalese workers.
Yee Liang told the broadcaster: “We have lost contact with all of them. There’s no signal, so we can’t reach anyone.’
He said that, to his knowledge, no warning had been given prior to the disaster: “There were occasional mud and landslides, especially in the rainy season, but this one seems much more serious.”
President Xi Jinping urged “comprehensive” search efforts for the missing, as well as stronger monitoring and early warning systems to prevent secondary disasters.
Prime Minister Balendra Shah said police and army are joining rescue and relief teams.
Meanwhile, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said New Delhi was ready to provide all possible humanitarian assistance and that teams from the two countries were closely coordinating in the rescue and relief efforts.
“Instructions have been given… to shift the people living in lower areas to safer places,” he said. ‘People along the river are advised to take extra care and remain alert.’
