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Rasuwa flood: confirmed dead, injured and rescued
Confirmed figures only, with the bulletin and the time attached to each one. Nepal Police put the toll at 1458 dead as of 14 October 2026, 12:00 pm NPT, up from 1456 at 12 October 2026, 6:00 am NPT.
What this page is, and what it is not
This is a record of officially confirmed figures with the bulletin and the timestamp attached to each one. It carries no names, no photographs of the dead, and no unverified reports. If you are looking for a specific person, start with the missing persons page, not this one.
The confirmed figures
Read every number against its own clock. The death toll and district breakdown are from the Nepal Police of 14 October 2026, 12:00 pm NPT. The missing figure is from the NDRRMA of 3 October 2026, 12:00 pm NPT. The rescue figure is from the Reuters of 5 October 2026, 12:00 pm NPT. Damage figures come from the UN OCHA situation overview, 27 August. Every count here is provisional and moves in both directions.
Where the bodies were recovered
The flood started in Rasuwa, but the river carried people a long way downstream. Most bodies have been recovered in Chitwan, six districts below the source. A district in the table below is where a body was found, not where the person was from.
| District | Bodies recovered |
|---|---|
| Chitwan | 369 |
| Rasuwa | 237 |
| Nawalparasi East | 232 |
| Nawalparasi West | 222 |
| Nuwakot | 205 |
| Gorkha | 80 |
| Dhading | 73 |
| Tanahun | 38 |
| Died in treatment | 2 |
| Total, Nepal | 1458 |
The Armed Police Force reported 121 bodies recovered from the Narayani river alone by Thursday afternoon. That is more than the entire national toll stood at 24 hours earlier. Chitwan’s mortuary has filled, and an identification centre is being set up.
A further 16 deaths are confirmed on the Chinese side, near Gyirong (Kyirong) county just over the border from Rasuwagadhi, where the dry port and customs area were hit. That brings the confirmed total across both countries to 1474.
Injured
NDRRMA reported 242 injured people receiving treatment or discharged at 5 October 2026, 12:00 pm NPT. This is the bulletin's current count, not a cumulative injury total.
Rescued
Search and rescue is being run by the Nepali Army, Nepal Police and the Armed Police Force with military and private helicopters. NDRRMA reported 13795 people rescued at 5 October 2026, 12:00 pm NPT. The latest report does not publish a current agency or location breakdown, so no sub-rows are inferred.
How the toll has moved
This is the clearest illustration of why a casualty figure without a timestamp is useless during an event like this. Every figure below was correct when it was published.
| When | Reported dead | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday evening, 26 Aug | 72 | NDRRMA |
| Wednesday evening, 26 Aug | 95 | Prime Minister’s Office |
| Late Wednesday, 26 Aug | ~160 | NDRRMA and Nepal Police, 157 bodies recovered |
| 13:30 Thursday, 27 Aug | 270 | Nepal Police |
| 14:30 Thursday, 27 Aug | 289 | Nepal Police |
| 12 October 2026, 6:00 am NPT | 1456 | Nepal Police |
| 14 October 2026, 12:00 pm NPT | 1458 | NDRRMA, reported by Onlinekhabar |
Three separate things move these figures, and they move at different speeds:
- Recovery continues downstream. Bodies are still being found along the Trishuli and the Narayani, so the confirmed dead count is expected to keep rising.
- Access, not death rate, drives the jumps. The sharp rises are teams reaching areas that had been cut off, not new casualties occurring.
- Different bulletins cover different hours. Nepal Police, NDRRMA, the PMO and district authorities publish at different times. Two correct sources can disagree simply because one is three hours older.
This site’s rule: where two sources disagree, show the lower confirmed figure, name the source, and print the time it was published. A number without a timestamp is not usable during an event like this.
Sources for every figure on this page
- Dead, by district: Nepal Police, 14 October 2026, 12:00 pm NPT. ndrrma.gov.np
- Missing: NDRRMA, 3 October 2026, 12:00 pm NPT.
- Injured and rescued: Reuters.
- Older damage and response figures: UN OCHA situation overview, 27 August on ReliefWeb, drawing on NDRRMA and Nepal Police.
- Narayani recoveries: Armed Police Force, reported by Nepalnews, 27 August.
- Hospital figures: Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, reported by Nagarik News, 27 August.
- Chinese-side deaths: Chinese state media (CCTV) regarding Gyirong county.
Figures come from the published bulletins named beside them. If one is wrong, report it and it gets corrected or removed.