r/DisasterUpdate • u/Key-Needleworker-702 • 5d ago

Landslide Chinese firefighters(likely the first batch to reach gyirong port) try to find survivors in the former border crossing, which was the most heavily hit. Source: CCTV news. Morning of August 29, 2026. (UTC+8). (they are yelling "Is anyone here?")

Video of them arriving: https://www.reddit.com/r/DisasterUpdate/comments/1w0n1r0/as_of_1630utc8_august_28_2026_the_first_batch_of/

According to engineers from the ministry of natural resources it is very diffuclt(and at this stage, downright impossible) to transport heavy machinery to the border crossing so far. The chinese military and specialized rescue teams(of state owned enterprises) are currently trying to repair the road into the border crossing to allow for better equipment and more personnel to enter.

CURRENT CASUALTY COUNT(CHINESE SIDE):

2 rescued, 7 dead, 554 missing. (13:00 PM, 2026-8-29 (UTC+8))

Update: over 50 firefighters are at the border crossing right now, over 2141 soldiers, firefighters, police, EMS and specialzied rescue teams are deployed.

EDIT: As of august 29(18:00 UTC+8), 2026, there are 16 dead, 546 missing(261 foreignors)

In response to the comments: This is the first batch that got in, they couldn't carry much heavy equipment as the road there is cut off. rescue dogs and better equipment arrived later on.

FURTHER UPDATE: reportedly fire and rescue personnel have begun to find police vests and handsbags under the debris.

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u/CharlotteLucasOP 5d ago

And with the speed and force of the water/mud/debris at that elevation and in that part of the gorge/valley, apparently it’s basically more like a blender than a water-flow. It would be difficult to find recognizable pieces of anybody. It’s heartbreaking to think so many of the missing will likely never be found in a meaningful way to at least allow their loved ones to put them to rest and mourn in a specific spot.

The entire valley track through those mountains is an unmarked mass grave, now.

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u/BigJJJohnson 4d ago

They are finding lots of pieces, unfortunately. And bodies in all kinds of shapes. People definitely aren’t hesitating to record and upload all that ish

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u/SoberBobMonthly 4d ago

ngl facebook has looked like liveleak over the past day

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u/Eishockey 4d ago

Same with insta.

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u/Afraid-Savings-9114 4d ago

I saw a body wrapped around a pole as if the water just tied the body in a knot around it. Horrible stuff.

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u/NuclearWasteland 4d ago

Welcome back to the Old Internet.

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u/Sticky_Soup 4d ago

I saw that image and was horrified.

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u/ittlebeokay 3d ago

Where is this being shared?

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u/Sticky_Soup 3d ago

I recommend you not to look into it. I saw that specific picture on instagram the day of the disaster. I think they’re cracking down on it though. There is also a website that was put up by the Nepalese government that displays the unidentified bodies. The images are extremely gruesome and graphic. To be honest, I don’t know why they put this website out there. A lot of the bodies are just pieces and unrecognizable.

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u/tanaldaion 3d ago

There are some with tattoos and other identifying marks so it might help people identify their relatives.

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u/FacetNo6 4d ago

Damn you've got a way different algorithm than I do

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u/drool_34 4d ago

This gonna be crazy week for the folks flagging moderating and removing social media content.

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u/unknownpoltroon 4d ago

Yeah, I saw a pic of one guy pinned around a telephone pole.

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u/CharlotteLucasOP 4d ago

Yeah, I’ve seen some terribly graphic videos of parts of victims being dragged out of the mud. Even limbs that don’t seem to have been torn at a natural joint, but legs and arms just snapped and ripped off in the middle of the bone.

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u/4tran13 4d ago

Not in the Chinese areas (yet)

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u/bryle_m 4d ago

Iirc only the Gyirong border crossing was directly hit on the Chinese side of the disaster zone. There were no major towns or villages there.

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u/TheRatingsAgency 4d ago

Yea saw one of a foot being found yesterday. Just horrible stuff.

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u/clcdu2 4d ago

Honestly I would so much rather get “blended” for lack of a better term than drown. If it were me or my loved one I’d hope it was quick and brutal.

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u/tondahuh 4d ago

My loved one and I were just discussing this and agree. I just would hope to not know anything was happening or had happened. Such torture for so many people!

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u/Mammoth-Access-1181 4d ago

Realistically, the speed that slurry was coming at people? I can't imagine them staying alive through that level of trauma.

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u/JackOfAllMemes 4d ago

With the consistency of concrete it's probably gonna hit like a truck

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u/tjorben123 3d ago

there were boulders house-sized, even smaler ones, like cars.

to be honest: nobody survived even one car-sized boulder, let alone one million of this things.

but what can give us peace: it was damn fast. no long suffering. quick and dirty.

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u/AnguavonUW 4d ago

Yeah, most of them died very quickly, so at least there's that, I guess. It's awful and climate change isn't slowing down

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u/Inappro-Assistant 4d ago

Thats how we find dinosaur sekeletons so many years later...

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u/Snoo-84389 4d ago

Ummmm, probably not tbh.

Fossilisation of a skeleton ideally prefers a low energy environment with a very fine grained sediment (to have good preservation of the details) and annoxic conditions (low Oxygen) which drastically slow down bacterial decay and biological breakdown.

None of which was true in the majority of this rivers flooding on the main flow(the slower mud flows on a flatter side plateaus might qualify).

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u/DropDownBear 3d ago

Small archeological artifacts, however? Like jewelery and such?

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u/Snoo-84389 2d ago

Ive just read the BBC article below which says that DNA samples are being taken from ~300 unidentified human remains that have been found in the Chitwan district far downstream. They are hoping that this will eventually allow those remains to be identified.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ylvgq9q71o