Archive · 28 Aug 2026
Facebook Post Helps Find Brothers Missing After Nepal Floods
Two brothers went missing after a big flood destroyed their school in Nepal.
The boys, Nischal and Nirjal, ran uphill and then walked through a forest for more than four hours.
An ambulance found them and took them to a hospital in Bidur.
A man named Bishnu Prasad Paudel saw the boys’ names in a Facebook post.
He realized they came from his old hometown.
He searched hospitals and found them.
Paudel called their mother and helped take care of them.
The boys were waiting for a helicopter to take them home because the roads were blocked.
Bishnu Prasad Paudel found missing brothers Nischal and Nirjal Tamang at a hospital in Bidur after seeing their names on Facebook.
The 13- and 7-year-old boys escaped their school as floods destroyed it in Rasuwa and walked through a jungle for more than four hours.
An ambulance rescued the injured brothers near the Sherpa Highway and took them to Chakradev Hospital.
Paudel helped discharge the boys, contacted their mother and brought them to a Nepal Army base while awaiting a helicopter home.
Authorities said 3,500 people had been rescued, nearly 500 bodies recovered and 977 people registered missing after the August 26 floods.
- Who
- Brothers Nischal and Nirjal Tamang were found by Bishnu Prasad Paudel after being reported missing.
- What
- A Facebook post helped Paudel locate the injured children at a hospital after they escaped Nepal floods.
- When
- The floods occurred on 26 August; Paudel found the boys on Thursday evening, the day after the floods.
- Where
- The boys were rescued near the Sherpa Highway and found at Chakradev Hospital in Bidur, Nuwakot; they came from Jibjiba in Rasuwa.
- Why
- Paudel searched for them after recognizing their hometown in a Facebook post and learning that rescued people were being taken to Bidur.
- Missing children
- Nischal Tamang, 13, and Nirjal Tamang, 7
- School
- Uttargaya School in Rasuwa was destroyed by the floods
- Rescue journey
- The brothers walked for more than four hours before an ambulance rescued them
- Hospital
- They were treated at Chakradev Hospital in Bidur for facial and body injuries
- Return home
- Roads to Jibjiba were cut off, leaving a helicopter as the only reported route home
- Reported rescues
- The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority said 3,500 people had been rescued
- Missing and dead
- Nearly 500 bodies had been recovered and 977 people remained registered as missing