Archive · 30 Aug 2026
Nepal Flood Survivors Search Hospitals for Missing Relatives
Flash floods in Nepal caused many people to die or disappear.
Families are going to hospitals and other places to look for their missing relatives.
They are putting up photographs and checking lists of names.
Hospitals are showing photographs of recovered bodies to help identify them.
Some people were last seen traveling, working, or loading vehicles near Rasuwa.
Other families lost contact after receiving warnings about the flood.
Rescue workers and government officials are searching for survivors and recovering bodies.
Families say they continue to hope for news, even when they fear their relatives may have died.
Families have posted photographs, posters, and missing-person lists outside Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu.
Hospital officials update photographs of recovered bodies hourly to help relatives identify the deceased.
Four days after the August 26 floods, reports said more than 700 people had died and about 2,500 remained missing.
Relatives have searched hospitals, military facilities, riverbanks, and online police photographs for information about missing people.
Rescue teams and authorities continue evacuations, searches, body identification, and tracing efforts across affected areas.
- Who
- Families of missing people, hospital and forensic staff, rescue teams, police, and government authorities.
- What
- Relatives are searching for missing family members while officials recover bodies, identify the deceased, and conduct rescue operations.
- When
- The searches took place after the August 26 flash floods; one report described conditions four days later, on August 30.
- Where
- Searches have centered on Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, other hospitals, Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Pokhara, and downstream areas including the Narayani and Trishuli rivers.
- Why
- Families want to locate missing relatives, determine whether they survived, and identify recovered bodies.
- Reported disaster date
- Flash floods struck on August 26.
- Reported death toll
- The death toll had crossed 700 in one report.
- Reported missing people
- Around 2,500 people were reported missing.
- Kathmandu hospital
- Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital displayed recovered-body photographs and updated them every hour.
- Pokhara identification effort
- More than 1,000 relatives reportedly searched photographs of 102 bodies at Pokhara Academy of Health Sciences.
- Trishuli recovery
- Forty-seven bodies were reportedly recovered from the Trishuli River area in Gorkha; 20 were intact enough for their faces to be visible.
- Identification methods
- Relatives used details including school clothing, jewelry, tattoos, and other distinguishing marks; some cases may require DNA testing.
- Other family gathering
- Families also gathered outside an Army camp in Nuwakot while awaiting information.
