Nepal floods: Reporter’s diary, August 27, 2026

A photojournalist for Nepali Times traveled by motorbike from Kathmandu toward flood-devastated areas including Trisuli Bazar and Betrawati, documenting towns that had been erased by avalanche-floods.

Survivors included a five-year-old girl who watched her mother and sister swept away, and a boy identified only by his school ID card after being found badly injured. The photographer described finding entire communities of women, children, and the elderly, with young men largely absent due to migration for work.

The piece describes bodies recovered along riverbanks, a husband identifying his wife's body, and a local ward official compiling survivor lists to determine the dead by subtraction. The scale of loss was described as exceeding even the 2015 earthquake in its impact on the reporter.

The full dispatch is available from the source below.