Five-year-old Ishara Tamang lies in a hospital bed in Kathmandu, injured and separated from her family, after surviving the flash floods that devastated Rasuwa district on the Nepal-Tibet border.
In another rescue operation at the Timure border town, an Armed Police Force team searching the wreckage of a collapsed security post heard a child’s cries. It took about two hours to pull her out. Manisha was found near Syabrubesi in Rasuwa district on Friday (August 28, 2026) after rescuers searching for survivors thought they heard a cat trapped under the debris.
A senior official with Nepal’s Armed Police Force told the BBC that rescuers began clearing the rubble and found the girl trapped underneath.
She was not accompanied by a family member at the hospital.
When she regained consciousness, she was able to tell medical staff her name and said her father was in Kathmandu. Her mother’s whereabouts remained unknown, the report said.
She was rescued from the floodwaters in Khalte, a village in Rasuwa, after being trapped in a net, the Onlinekhabar news portal reported. The girl was taken to the border outpost in Timure, but bad weather prevented her immediate evacuation to a hospital, the newspaper reported, without sharing her identity. In another rescue operation, a five-year-old girl rescued alive from beneath rubble two days after the devastating flash floods has been reunited with her parents in a Kathmandu hospital, the BBC reported.
The August 26 floods – which travelled downstream through the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli river system – have left a trail of destruction across northern and central Nepal, with the death toll crossing 700 on Sunday (August 30, 2026), while around 2,500 people are still missing. Families, on Sunday (August 30, 2026), crowded hospitals searching for missing relatives as rescuers continued digging through mud and debris amid intermittent rainfall and renewed concerns over rising river levels. I jumped and moved forward, then got trapped in the net.
Ishara told hospital staff: “Mother was swept away.
