Nepal UK
The death toll from the 26 August 2026 Bhotekoshi River flood in Rasuwa has reached at least 1,356 as of 7 September, with approximately 5,000 people still missing — including around 600 foreign nationals from 35 countries, among them at least 33 British citizens, according to UK travel advisory reporting. For the UK Nepalese community, many of whom have family ties in the worst-hit districts of Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Dhading and Gorkha, the disaster has triggered both grief and a scramble to establish the safety of relatives back home.
Nepali authorities report that 13,396 people have been rescued so far, and infrastructure damage has been severe: the Narayangadh-Muglin road remains partially closed for landslide-prevention work, and subsidence on the Prithvi Highway near Krishnabhir has cut a key route, pushing up demand for Bharatpur-Kathmandu flights as an alternative. International aid has arrived, including 100 tonnes of humanitarian supplies from Pakistan. The UK's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office has stopped short of advising against travel to Nepal as a whole, but is warning of further flooding risk in Rasuwa and the Tibet border area, and has kept its Family Assistance Centre at the British Embassy Kathmandu open to support relatives of missing or affected British nationals. The Nepal Immigration Department has also said foreign nationals whose visas expired due to travel disruption will receive free extensions arranged at the airport. For UK Nepalese families, the practical concern is less about UK travel guidance and more about the reliability of communications and transport into the affected districts, and whether remittance and relief channels — several UK organisations are now waiving transfer fees — are reaching people quickly enough given the scale of destruction described by rescue services.
