Horrifying footage has emerged from Nepal after devastating floods and landslides swept away buildings and bridges, leaving at least 95 people dead and hundreds missing.

One video, captured by a CCTV camera, shows a massive mudslide crashing into Gyirong Port on the China-Nepal border as people desperately flee the area.

Within seconds, the scene is engulfed by mud and water, sending vehicles and buses flying and tearing through infrastructure as floodwater surges across the area.

Another video, filmed from inside a bus, shows people running as a wall of water comes rushing towards them. 

Passengers can be heard screaming and crying as the bus reaches higher ground, while they watch in horror as the floodwaters continue to rise.

A separate CCTV video from the Rasuwagadhi border point on the Nepal-Tibet border captures people fleeing another mudslide as it engulfs the area.

The torrent tossed busses and cars into the air and smashed through a car park barrier as it tore through the site in apocalyptic scenes.

One disturbing clip shows construction workers with a crane on a mountainside near the river desperately scrambling to escape as floodwaters surge towards them, while people on higher ground shout. 

Another video shows the moment the Bhote Koshi river swells up and overflows, as the current knocks down the homes surrounding it.

CCTV footage shows people running away as wall of mud and water destroys buildings in a valley at Nepal-China border, in Gyirong, Tibet region, China August 26, 2026

One video, filmed from inside a bus, shows people running as a wall of water comes rushing towards them

The torrent tossed busses and cars into the air and smashed through a car park barrier as it tore through the site in apocalyptic scenes

Hundreds of people are missing following the deadly floods in Nepal, which swept away large pieces of infrastructure

One disturbing clip shows construction workers with a crane on a mountainside near the river desperately scrambling to escape

Within moments, the crane is engulfed by the rushing water. 

Experts believe a 4.4-magnitude quake triggered an ice avalanche which in turn blocked the Lhende river. Water then built up behind the blockage before bursting downstream with devastating consequences. 

There are fears that a second flood may plunge Nepal, Tibet and neighbouring India into further chaos. 

Flood alerts were issued in the populous northern Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar as they border Nepal and several rivers flow down the mountains into their plains.

Nepali officials said as many as 384 tourists and trekkers are unaccounted for, made up of 291 foreign nationals and 93 Nepali citizens. 

Among the unaccounted are 12 from the UK, 105 Indian nationals, four from South Africa, 17 from Malaysia and three from the United States. One each from Australia and the Netherlands are also unaccounted for.

South Korea said eight of its citizens were unaccounted for, while an additional 12 were stranded following the deadly floods. 

The nationalities of nearly 100 more people has not yet been established, while an additional 37 people are believed to be non-resident Indians living in Nepal. 

Qianggong Zhang, head of climate and environmental risks at the Kathmandu-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, warned the region may come under threat again. 

He said: ‘With a blockage still lodged upstream on the Nepal-China border river, authorities warn a second flood may occur.’ 

Search operations are currently under way on both sides of the border between Tibet and Nepal. 

At the Gyirong Port, authorities have deployed nearly 600 rescuers. 

But a rescuer told Chinese media that it would take at least four hours for the team to reach the site due to the five foot deep sediment that blocked pathways leading to the affected area. 

The debris had surged upstream from the Nepalese side of the crossing, the rescuer said.

The Nepal Army said 14 helicopters and disaster response teams have been deployed for rescue and relief. 

But officials said the waters were too high for helicopters to land in Nepal’s affected areas of Syapru Besi and Timure in the mountainous district of Rasuwa, with a population of about 50,000. 

Nepal’s rescue helicopters would be unable to land in the affected areas until the waters recede, however, army spokesperson Raja Ram Basnet said. 

‘There could be heavy casualties or loss of property,’ district administrator Narendra Pariyar told Reuters. 

‘But I cannot say for sure now.’ Pariyar urged those living on the banks of the Bhote Koshi river in the area to seek higher ground, pointing to reports that nearby villages and infrastructure project sites were washed away.

‘It all came suddenly,’ the Onlinekhabar portal quoted a witness from the area as saying. ‘We heard a loud sound, like a volcano erupting. People started to scream and ran away.’

Around 60 houses in the Trishuli Bazaar area were swept away, while the nearby Devighat was also badly affected. Two bridges over the nearby Trishuli River were also washed away. 

Nepali media reported that 60 employees of an under-construction hydropower project are missing following the floods. 

Staff working at the Langtang Khola Hydroelectric Project in Rasuwa have not been accounted for. 

Local media reported that workers were ‘carrying out concrete construction work inside a tunnel’, adding: ‘The flood caused severe damage to the project.’

Rasuwa is home to several hydropower plants. Nepal’s energy ministry said 430 MW of electricity supplies were affected, mostly from hydroelectric projects, or more than 12% of total national hydropower capacity of 3.2 GW, a Reuters calculation showed. 

Damaged houses stand precariously near the swollen, debris-choked banks of the Trishuli River

Police officers carry a survivor to a safer place following a flash flood at Trishuli in Nuwakot district, Nepal

Residents look at houses partially submerged in muddy water after flash floods

The mudslide on the Nepali side hit China’s Gyirong port, cutting off roads, communications and power in the Shigatse region near the border with Nepal.  

‘I witnessed the flood sweep away eight or nine trucks, along with houses and people,’ Suman Chalise, a 34-year-old teacher, told AFP in Nuwakot district.

‘It was absolutely heart-wrenching. I had not witnessed such devastation before.’

One Chinese businessman told the BBC that his logistics firm has seven container trucks in the area of the flash flood, which are all staffed by Nepalese employees. 

Yee Liang told the broadcaster: ‘We have lost contact with all of them. There is no signal, so we cannot reach anyone.’

He said that, as far as he’s aware, there was no warning prior to the disaster: ‘There were occasional mudslides and landslides, especially in the rainy season, but this one seems much more serious.’

President Xi Jinping urged ‘all-out’ search efforts for the missing as well as stronger monitoring and early warning systems to prevent secondary disasters.

Prime Minister Balendra Shah said police and military were joining rescue and relief teams.

Meanwhile, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said New Delhi was ready to provide all possible humanitarian assistance and teams from the two countries were coordinating closely on rescue and relief efforts. 

‘Instructions have been given … to move the people living in the lower areas to safer places,’ he said. ‘People along the river are advised to exercise extra caution and remain alert.’