Flooding and landslides kill over 100 across northern India and Nepal
Severe monsoon downpours caused extensive flooding and landslides across northern India and Nepal, killing at least 81 people in Uttar Pradesh and 27 in Nepal while displacing tens of thousands.
Casualties and destruction in Uttar Pradesh
Heavy rain over three consecutive days triggered severe flooding across northern India, causing at least 81 deaths and 46 injuries in Uttar Pradesh since Friday. State officials reported that floodwaters collapsed buildings, brought down trees, severed power lines, and damaged more than 1,000 houses across multiple districts. In rural zones, waters submerged over 2,000 hectares of cropland and drowned more than 100 head of livestock. District administrations ordered the closure of schools on Monday in areas including the state capital of Lucknow, where municipal authorities urged residents to stay away from waterlogged streets and overflowing drainage channels. In eastern India, the government of Odisha evacuated more than 75,000 residents from vulnerable river basins to designated relief shelters.
- Uttar Pradesh (India)
- 81 deaths
- Nepal (nationwide)
- 27 deaths
Landslides and mountain avalanches across Nepal
In Nepal, intense precipitation caused widespread flooding, river surges, and landslides that left at least 27 people dead across the country. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority declared emergency alerts across 49 of the nation's 77 districts. In the Manang district settlement of Chame, flash floods along the swelling Marsyangdi River swept away five homes and two wooden bridges, severing roadway connections and sending villagers fleeing into nearby forests overnight. In the northern Himalayas, an avalanche struck Mount Himlung on Sunday, killing at least two individuals and leaving 14 climbers missing. The adverse weather forced tourism authorities to suspend trekking and climbing expeditions across several peaks, directly impacting autumn climbing operations for 579 registered mountaineers from 67 countries.
- Three days of heavy rains begin in Uttar Pradesh as two labourers are rescued from Trishuli-3 tunnel
- Rescuers extract a Chinese survivor trapped 225 metres inside a hydroelectric tunnel in Nepal
- Landslides destroy homes in Chame and an avalanche strikes Mount Himlung
- Rainfall eases across the region as the combined death toll in India and Nepal surpasses 100
Tunnel rescues and recovery from August disaster
The latest storm hit Nepal while emergency personnel were still responding to the aftermath of the 26 August glacial flood that left over 1,400 dead and nearly 5,600 missing. On Saturday, military search teams, assisted by technical specialists from India, China, and South Korea, extracted a Chinese worker alive from a tunnel 225 metres deep at the Trishuli-3 hydroelectric project. That rescue followed the extraction of two Nepalese labourers, aged 30 and 45, on Friday. On the same day, rescue workers found a 64-year-old woman alive in the town of Betrawati and transported her to a medical facility in Kathmandu.
The rescue and search operations are continuing.
Monsoon depression and regional outlook
Meteorological officials traced the severe weather to a monsoon low-pressure system originating over the Bay of Bengal that tracked across central India before impacting Himalayan valleys. Atul Kumar Singh, a senior scientist at the Regional Meteorological Centre in Lucknow, reported that precipitation began easing on Monday as the weather system lost strength over the subcontinent. Light rainfall remained possible across eastern and western sectors of Uttar Pradesh through Tuesday. In Kathmandu, skies cleared with sunshine returning on Monday morning, bringing an end to days of continuous rainfall as the annual monsoon season approaches its typical conclusion.
