Archive · 31 Aug 2026
Gandak Bodies Rise To 17 As Nepal Flood Search Continues
Rescuers found 17 bodies in the Gandak River in Uttar Pradesh.
Officials believe the people may have died in Nepal’s severe floods.
Thirteen bodies were found in parts of Kushinagar.
Four others were found in Maharajganj on August 27.
Four unidentified bodies from Maharajganj were given to Nepal officials.
They will try to identify the people and connect them with their families.
Nepal’s floods have killed hundreds of people.
More than 2,500 people are still missing.
Seventeen bodies believed linked to Nepal’s flash floods have been recovered from the Gandak River in Uttar Pradesh.
Thirteen were found in Kushinagar’s Khadda and Tamkuhi Raj tehsils, including four recovered on Monday.
Four additional bodies were recovered from Maharajganj’s Nichlaul tehsil on August 27.
The four bodies recovered in Maharajganj were unidentified and handed over to Nepal authorities for identification.
Nepal’s floods have killed at least 700 people, with 788 reported dead in one update and more than 2,500 still missing.
- Who
- State Disaster Response Force teams, Indian police and Nepal authorities are involved in recovering, transferring and identifying the bodies.
- What
- Seventeen bodies believed to be victims of Nepal’s flash floods were recovered from the Gandak River in Uttar Pradesh.
- When
- Thirteen bodies were recovered over four days in Kushinagar, including four on Monday; four others were recovered in Maharajganj on August 27.
- Where
- The bodies were recovered from the Gandak River in Kushinagar’s Khadda and Tamkuhi Raj tehsils and Maharajganj’s Nichlaul tehsil, Uttar Pradesh.
- Why
- Officials believe the bodies were carried into India by floodwaters from Nepal.
- Total bodies recovered
- 17 from the Gandak River in Uttar Pradesh
- Kushinagar recoveries
- 13 bodies from Khadda and Tamkuhi Raj tehsils
- Maharajganj recoveries
- Four bodies from Nichlaul tehsil on August 27
- Identification status
- The bodies were unidentified; four were handed over to Nepal authorities
- Nepal death toll
- 788 reported dead in one update; another report said more than 700
- People missing in Nepal
- More than 2,500
- Disaster cause
- An ice-rock avalanche following a glacial collapse sent water, mud and debris downstream
