2026-09-08
According to a September 2026 report by Lude Society, during the Nepal floods the CCP dispatched the People's Liberation Army to the border for logistical support, attempting to exploit the disaster to gain border interests and leading the narrative that attributed the floods to climate change.
2026-09-05
On the tenth day after the disaster at the Gyirong Port border, Nepalese rescue forces successfully rescued Chinese worker Lu Haitao from a tunnel buried by a mudslide, demonstrating the scale and persistence of local rescue operations.
2026-09-05
On September 5, 2026, a Chinese worker who had been trapped for 10 days in a tunnel at the Chushuri Hydropower Station amid flash floods on the Nepal-Tibet border was successfully rescued by Nepalese military rescue personnel and airlifted by helicopter for medical treatment.
2026-09-05
On September 5 local time, a joint rescue team made up of Nepalese military personnel and South Korean disaster rescue experts rescued 49-year-old Chinese worker Lu Haitao, from Anyang, Henan, who had been trapped for 11 days, from a 225-meter-long hydropower station tunnel in Rasuwa in northern Nepal. His condition is stable, and Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Zhang Maoming subsequently went to the hospital to visit him.
2026-09-05
Nepal police announced on September 5 that as of local time September 5, 1,344 bodies of victims had been recovered from the disaster, with another 4,898 people missing; approximately 900 workers at 12 hydropower projects across the country are missing, of whom about 500 are trapped inside tunnels.
2026-09-05
After Chinese workers were rescued on September 5, state media outlets such as Chengdu Economic Daily and Tibet Daily reported with headlines like "Chinese and South Korean experts and the Nepalese army have been working hard." Red Star News, when citing local reporters, added a statement about Chinese tunnel experts participating in the rescue. However, reports from the Nepalese military and foreign media only mentioned the Nepalese military and South Korean experts, sparking questions about China grabbing credit.
2026-09-05
According to a program on Luther Society, officials last updated the casualty figures for the Nepal earthquake on September 5, reporting 43 dead and 519 missing, totaling 562, and have not released any specific casualty updates since then.
2026-09-04
Nepalese army, armed police and rescue personnel rescued two stranded engineers inside the tunnel of the Upper Chhuksikhola 3A hydropower plant; the two were subsequently taken to a hospital in Kathmandu.
2026-09-04
Nepal's disaster management department has released its latest statistics, showing that the floods have killed at least 1,259 people and left more than 5,000 missing.
2026-09-03
On September 3, 2026, Australian media and the HiRISK organization released an investigation indicating that satellites had recorded signs of glacial instability weeks before the mudslide disaster on the Nepal-Tibet border, and disclosed that China significantly lagged in sharing cross-border hydrological early warning data.
2026-09-03
Surviving workers at a Nepali hydropower project said that before the flood arrived, workers noticed something abnormal and demanded to evacuate the tunnel, but were stopped by the Chinese supervisor. The supervisor said they should go out first to check, then fled on his own and never returned, leaving a large number of workers trapped in the tunnel.
2026-09-03
According to the Associated Press, local rescuers and the government in Nepal have set up simple cableways in the landslide-stricken area to send rescued residents back to their affected homes to see whether they can salvage remaining belongings.
2026-09-02
A surviving worker at Nepal's Chhuksuli 3A Hydropower Plant describes conditions before and after the flood, with multiple workers trapped in an underground tunnel.
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, surviving workers at Nepal's Trishuli 3A hydropower station told the media that before the flash flood arrived on August 26, workers had requested evacuation, but the Chinese national in charge ordered them to stay and keep working while he left first, leaving multiple workers trapped in the tunnel.
2026-09
Nepal's immigration department found in electronic records that on the day of the flood, 89 people departed for Tibet and 4 were registered as entering Nepal; the last transaction occurred at 8:35:03.
2026-09
A 45-day-old infant was rescued in the recent Nepal flood disaster area, considered a miracle. The report criticizes the Chinese Communist Party for being busy expanding border interests during this period instead of focusing on the disaster.
2026-09
After mudslides destroyed multiple hydropower stations, the Nepalese government set up a dedicated research group and proposed reconsidering its hydropower development strategy centered on diversion-type hydropower stations.
2026-09
Nepal has deployed a total of more than 25,000 military and police personnel in mudslide disaster relief operations, including 9,287 army soldiers, 7,912 police officers, and 4,203 armed police, rescuing and relocating a total of 13,396 people, with the entire relief process conducted openly before the world's media.
2026-08-31
As of August 31, the Nepali side announced that the death toll from the mudslides exceeded 900, with about 4,247 people missing, and the casualty figures had been updated at least 12 times.
2026-08-31
The Nepalese government released data on zone-by-zone body recovery, missing persons, rescue statistics and aid, and made public the list of survivors and photos of unidentified bodies for families to identify.
2026-08-31
China deployed personnel from the People's Liberation Army, the Armed Police, fire and rescue services, and China Coal Technology & Engineering Group (China Energy Engineering), mobilized nearly 4,000 sets of equipment, and ultimately recovered 7 bodies of the deceased, without rescuing any survivors.
2026-08-31
The US Geological Survey has revised its earlier assessment, saying the Nepal mudslide was triggered by a glacier rockfall rather than an earthquake.
2026-08-31
Nepal's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the floods have confirmed 903 deaths, about 4,200 people missing, and more than 10,000 rescued, with the missing including people from 38 countries.
2026-08-31
A school in Trishuli, Nepal, suspended classes after receiving a warning of rising water levels and moved more than 900 students out; another local middle school was washed away in earlier floods.
2026-08-30
The Nepalese military reported that it has deployed more than 8,300 personnel in total, rescued 2,697 people and evacuated over 10,000; among them, 2,497 were airlifted by helicopter, including 72 Chinese nationals.
2026-08-30
During the mudslide disaster relief efforts on the China-Nepal border, the Nepali side rescued and transferred 2,697 people on August 30 alone, including 72 Chinese citizens. Nepal subsequently announced a cumulative total of 13,396 people rescued and transferred, with over 25,000 personnel from the army, police, and armed police participating in the rescue. These figures have been used to compare against the lower rescue input and results from the Chinese side.
2026-08-30
Xinhua News Agency reporters interviewed local residents in the disaster area of a mudslide in Nepal, recording residents' escapes, survivors' experiences, and houses buried by mud and sand.
2026-08-29
Nepal has reported that floods at the Gyirong border crossing have killed 626 people and left 2,426 missing, with 14,829 military, armed police and police security personnel participating in search and rescue operations.
2026-08-28
On August 28, 2026, the Nepal Tourism Board issued a search and rescue report stating that in the catastrophic flash flood disaster at the China-Nepal border, rescuers had successfully evacuated 121 foreign nationals from the Nepalese side, including 16 Chinese citizens.
2026-08-27
The day after the debris flow, the Nepalese military deployed helicopters and about 2000 personnel for rescue, evacuating 449 people by helicopter that day.
2026-08-26
Nepal has confirmed that the death toll from the landslide disaster has risen to 95, with another 403 people missing, including 341 foreign citizens.
2026-08-26
Massive flash floods occurred in Nepal near the border with Tibet on August 26, leaving at least 22 people dead and hundreds missing.
2026-08-26
An Indian newspaper suggested that the mudslide at the Gyirong border crossing may have been triggered by the collapse of a reservoir built by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but the report did not specify whether the reservoir was located in China or in Nepal.
2026-08-26
On August 26, 2026, a debris flow triggered by an ice-and-rock avalanche on the Nepal side struck the Gyirong port on the Tibetan side; as of 18:00 on August 29, the Chinese side reported 16 dead and 546 missing.
2026-08-26
As of the end of August, rescue operations for the mudslide disaster in Nepal have saved more than 8,700 people, while the number of dead and missing continues to rise.
2026-08-26
The mudslide destroyed about 42 kilometers of roads along the border and several bridges along the route, damaging related border facilities.
2026-08-26
After the disaster, social media circulated claims that China's building of border "moderately prosperous villages" (xiaokang villages) in high Himalayan regions and mountain-cutting and slope-slicing projects near Gyirong damaged the ecology, triggered an avalanche and caused flash floods. An account focusing on investigative reporting in Nepal, Nepal Correspondence, called this a "deliberate ecological disaster"; there is no solid evidence to confirm it. Meanwhile, disaster videos within China were quickly deleted.
2026-08-25
The last video on the account of Ningbo teacher and Douyin travel blogger Qiu Wenjin was posted on August 25, after which updates stopped; whether he was safe was not confirmed at the time.
2026-08
Nepali media reported that the Nepali side received no early warning from the Chinese side, and only learned of the disaster after being notified by local residents; Nepali journalists said the disaster caused heavy casualties.
2026-08
Nepal's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority issued a special alert about an hour and a half after the flash flood, ordering evacuations in riverside counties, and has continued to update the situation, search and rescue progress, lists of the rescued and missing, and hospital information.
2026-08
5 Chinese who had originally been scattered across different locations spent the night together in a cowshed on a mountain, were rescued by helicopter the next day, and were subsequently taken back to Kathmandu by a reporter.
2026-08
Nepali police published information about missing persons on their website and provided a page for families of the victims to claim bodies; the program said the relevant website cannot be accessed inside China.
2026-08
According to Reuters, landslides in the Terai river basin in late August 2026 destroyed at least 12 hydropower plants in Nepal, rendering them irreparable and causing huge investment losses.
2026-08
The Trishuli 3A hydropower plant was completed and put into operation in 2019, with a capacity of 60 megawatts. It was financed by the Export-Import Bank of China and built by China Gezhouba Group, and was destroyed in a mudslide in August 2026, beyond repair.
2026-08
The nearly completed Trishuli 1 Hydropower Plant, financed by the World Bank and other institutions, with a total investment of $647 million and a capacity of 216 megawatts, was destroyed in a mudslide in August 2026, wiping out the investment.
2026-05-27
On May 27, 2026, Nepal and the Chinese side held talks in Kathmandu to discuss cooperation on flood, weather, and glacial disaster monitoring; after the meeting, Nepali officials said they had not obtained the Tibetan-side glacier risk and water level data they wanted.
2021
After the Nepali government investigation team inspected the border in the Humla region, its report stated that parts of the fence had crossed the boundary markers toward Nepal, by up to 32 meters at the farthest.