Nepal’s Foreign Ministry said 324 foreign nationals had been rescued so far, while about 590 from 39 countries remained missing a week later.

The authorities have not released an official list of those missing in the Tibet flood, creating an information void that people have tried to fill.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) said a glacial collapse caused the flash floods that swept through Nepal and Tibet in late August 2026, engulfing entire villages and killing hundreds. However, conspiracy theorists on social media quickly pinned the torrent on an Alaskan research project instead,

Anil Goel sent his family in the U.S. a photo of his tour group at the Nepal-Tibet border just before the area was hit by a wall of mud and water.

The Nepali PM said the government's focus would shift to "rehabilitation."

At least 160 people were killed when floods tore through a Himalayan river valley between Nepal and the Tibet region of China, the authorities said.

The death toll from the flash flood-devastated region of Nepal and Tibet has risen past 470, as rescue efforts continue on both sides of the Himalayan border. The prime minister’s office in Nepal reported on Friday that 469 people were confirmed killed with 977 missing.

The death toll from last week's flash flooding disaster in the Nepal-Tibet border region rose to at least 955 people as of Monday, according to the latest updates from Nepali and Chinese officials, with more than 4,400 people reported missing.

As rescuers scrambled to find survivors buried in the catastrophic flooding that swept through the Nepal-Tibet border in late August 2026, an AI-generated video was shared in posts falsely claiming it showed the rescue of a six-year-old girl found alive days after the disaster.