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Nepal-Tibet: Tracing the deadly path of the flood

BBC Verify traces the path of the destructive Nepal-Tibet flash flood using verified video.

· 633 words· updated August 27, 2026 at 12:13 PM

Floods have devastated the Nepal-Tibet border region which have destroyed towns and swept away bridges.

Hundreds of people have been reported dead and hundreds more missing.

BBC Verify has traced the path of the deadly flash flood using verified videos and satellite imagery. Merlyn Thomas reports.

Produced by Aisha Sembhi. Graphics by Mesut Ersoz. Verification by Emma Pengelly, Paul Brown, Charlotte Green, Shayan Sardarizadeh, Yi Ma and Benedict Garman.

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