Nepal says it is intensifying efforts to free hundreds of people trapped inside tunnels at hydropower projects, including the Trishuli-3A site, following Wednesday's flash floods
Crews - including experts from China and India - have been attempting to make contact but have so far received no response from inside the tunnel, officials say
Hundreds of the 2,500 people reported missing are believed to be employees of Nepal's hydropower sites
Wednesday's disaster has killed at least 794 people and more than 2,500 people are missing in Nepal, local officials say
In Tibet, the official death toll is 16, with 546 reported to be missing, according to Chinese state media - rescuers are struggling to find survivors, our correspondent says
Thousands in Nepal are still waiting to be rescued, but unpredictable weather is making rescue operations increasingly difficult.
South Asia correspondent Azadeh Moshiri reports from the scene.
Nepalese media have reported that rescuers are searching for the father of a young girl who was rescued from the floodwaters in Khalte, Rasuwa earlier this week.
Local media reports that Ishara, 5, became trapped in a net after she lost hold of her mother's hand and watched as she was swept away by the floodwaters. She was reportedly rescued and taken to a paediatric hospital.
Staff there tell Nepal's Online Khabar news site that Ishara arrived to hospital unconscious but was able to provide her name and recount her story after she awoke.
"No one from her family has been in contact. We don't know whether someone will come looking for her. So, for now, we are doing our best to care for her like our own child," healthcare worker Pavitra Magar told Online Khabar.
Ishara reportedly told staff that her father was in Kathmandu. The news site says that attempts are being made to find her father via social media.
Image source, ReutersRescue operations have entered their sixth day after flash floods devastated the Nepal-Tibet border region, with the death toll reaching nearly 800.
In Kathmandu, BBC Nepali has spoken to people leaving pictures of missing loved ones on the wall of a hospital in the hope of finding them.
Meanwhile, at the Trishuli-3A hydroelectric facility, rescuers have managed to create a hole wide enough to enter and begin the search for survivors, but have so far received no response.
Of the more than 2,500 missing people, hundreds are believed to be workers in Nepal's hydropower sites.
Also among the missing are foreign nationals from all over the world - we've got a breakdown here.
Amid the loss and devastation, there have also been stories of hope and rescue - we've looked at some of those in an earlier post.
In Tibet, which is controlled by China, the official death toll is 16, with 546 reported to be missing - around half are thought to be foreign nationals.
Officials in Shigatse say rescue teams are not finding anyone alive, the BBC's China correspondent writes.
Image source, ReutersEarlier today special prayers were held at the south London Sanatan Mandir temple, where the community holds out hope for 16 of its members who remain missing since Wednesday's floods.
Prajval Haldia, 22, whose parents are among the missing, says he is "trying to stay positive".
"I was really close to my parents. I'm an only child, so, like, losing that support system, the people you speak to every day, it's really hard, but we're just hoping to hear good news very soon," he tells news agency AFP.
"Everyone's here for the same thing, to try and hope for, and be positive, and pray for everyone coming back home safely."
Image source, AFPPrajval Haldia, 22, says he and others are hoping for good news
Shreejana Shrestha
BBC Nepali, reporting from Kathmandu
Image source, BBC NepaliI've been speaking to people appealing for information to find loved ones at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, where the images of missing people cover a wall.
"This is my brother." Nani Maya BK tells me. "This too, this too."
She continues: "This is my son. This one too."
She says she has heard of many people stuck in forests, waiting to be rescued. "I hope they could be found among them," she says.
"I am posting their photos, asking them to contact us once they see them."
Phanindra Dahal and Swati Joshi
BBC Nepali and South Asia visual journalism
At least 19 schools have been affected across the three districts worst hit by the floods, Nepal's education ministry says.
At least nine schools have been destroyed and seven others have been partially damaged, and teachers and students have been reported missing at several institutions.
According to the latest assessment by the Ministry of Education and Sports, more than 200 students are missing and about 20 have been swept away by the floods.
Most of the schools that have been severely damaged are in the Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts.
Several schools in these two districts, where 2,425 students were studying, have either been flooded or buried.
One school reported that the flood swept away a bus carrying one of its students.
BBC's South Asia visual journalism mapped out the areas where the schools were hit using satellite imagery.
Gani Ansari
BBC Nepali, reporting from Kathmandu
Image source, RSSOfficials say that relief distribution is being coordinated from the district headquarters in Dhunche in Rasuwa
Several days since the floods hit, residents in Nepal's Rasuwa district say they are still cut off from basic services and have yet to receive relief.
Rasuwa lies upstream and closer to the location of the landslide. It bore the brunt of the flooding, with roads washed away. More than four days later, residents say they are still isolated.
"There is no electricity, no roads to go anywhere, and relief has not reached here," Hembe Tamang, 40, from Aamachhodingmo Rural Municipality, told me by phone. Tamang's son-in-law is among those missing after the floods.
With power still out, many residents say they have struggled to stay in touch with relatives. A solar panel at the municipal office has become one of the few places where people can charge their phones, often after waiting for hours.
Health workers have also warned that supplies are running low, with enough food remaining for a day or two and gas completely gone.
Nepal's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority says aid is being delivered where roads remain passable, while work is under way to reopen routes and reach communities still cut off by the floods.
The Nepal Tourism Board says 289 foreign nationals have been rescued since the floods hit earlier in the week.
Another 591 are out of communication as of 18:00 local time (13:15 BST), the board adds.
"Search, rescue, evacuation and assistance operations are continuing for those who remain stranded, injured or otherwise affected," it says in its latest statement.
Sean Dilley
BBC correspondent
Image source, SuppliedPrajval Haldia, from south London, says the UK Foreign Office has updated him on his parents' whereabouts prior to Wednesday's floods.
The Foreign Office tells him that, according to information from the Chinese government, Pavan and Kavita Haldia completed immigration at the Gyirong Port and were registered as missing on the Tibetan side of the border.
The Londoner had dropped his parents off at the airport for their trip to Kathmandu. He knew they were planning to visit Mount Kailash, but hadn't heard of their whereabouts since news of the floods.
"This is a significant development in our search," Haldia tells the BBC. He goes on to call on the British government and relevant authorities to "collaborate as much as they possibly can with their Chinese counterparts at this time".
Haldia continues to hold on to hope for his parents' safe return, voicing gratitude "for every effort being made to locate them".
Malu Cursino
Live reporter
We've heard stories through the day of hope and relief from survivors of the deadly floods near the Nepal-Tibet border, offering some light as crews work around the clock to respond to the disaster.
The head teacher of a school in Nuwakot told BBC Nepali about his decision to evacuate 900 pupils to safety after receiving a series of calls warning of floods in the area.
Teacher saved the lives of 900 students after phone call warning of flood
Sixteen-year-old Yunisha - a pupil at the school - says her and her friends survived "by just 10 seconds". Her mother, Sabina Shrestha, recalled the worry and relief she felt once her daughter returned home - three days later.
In the capital Kathmandu, a five-year-old girl rescued on Friday (two days after devastating flash floods) was reunited with her parents in hospital. Staff at the Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu say the girl, identified as Manisha, is in a stable condition.
The scale of destruction in Nepal continues to come into focus, five days on. Police say more than 790 people have been killed by the floods. Elsewhere, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority says at least 2,502 people are still missing.
Rescue efforts are under way near Nepal's Trishuli-3A hydropower site, with crew pumping air into a tunnel where workers are believed to be trapped.
The PM's office says a team of 90 - including armed forces, police and rescuers with trained dogs - were deployed. But so far, they have "received no response from inside".
In Tibet 16 people are confirmed dead and 546 others are missing, according to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
Officials in Shigatse say rescue teams are not finding anyone alive, the BBC's China correspondent writes. China annexed Tibet in the 1950s and their strict control of the region makes it difficult for us to know what is happening on the ground.
A bus carrying people rescued after the flood in Rasuwa crashed in Danda, east of Nawalparasi, according to Nepal's National News Committee.
The bus was travelling the capital Kathmandu to Bardiya, in south-west Nepal.
Thirty-two of the 38 passengers were injured, the outlet adds.
Of those, 27 have already been discharged after being treated, and five remain in hospital, says Deputy Superintendent of Police Anil Pandit of the Nawalpur East District Police Office.
Night has fallen in Nepal but people continue to look through lists of survivors, using torches on their phones as they desperately seek information about loved ones.
Rescue and relief efforts have continued throughout the day. But as the death toll rises, police have also been seen transporting bodies to a mass burial site.
Meanwhile, some have been pictured returning to their homes to inspect the damage.
Image source, ReutersPeople look through the lists of survivors outside Maithili Barrack army training centre
Image source, ReutersA member of the security personnel and a volunteer sort out relief supplies
Image source, ReutersPolice stop for water as they work on transporting bodies to a mass burial site in the town of Devghat
Image source, ReutersA man inspects his damaged house
Image source, ReutersThe prime minister's office in Nepal says tunnel rescue efforts have been "intensified" at the Trishuli-3A hydropower site, including "blasting operations".
Writing on X, it says a joint team of 90 people has been deployed, including armed forces, police, and rescuers with trained dogs.
A 2x3ft hole (0.6x0.9m) was created in the crown of the tunnel earlier, with rescuers descending on ropes. They "received no response from inside" when they called out.
Operations have continued, with the team "working tirelessly around the clock" despite "difficult and risky conditions", the PM's office says.
Of the more than 2,500 missing people, hundreds are believed to be workers in Nepal's hydropower sites.
The number of bodies recovered since Wednesday has increased to 794 as of 17:45 local time on Sunday (13:00 BST), Nepal Police says in its latest update.
In a separate update, the National Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Authority (NDRRMA) says 781 people have been killed and 2,502 remain missing.
As a reminder, over the last few days information has been coming in from multiple agencies in Nepal and official figures don't always match up.
Tourists from all over the world come to Nepal for its mountains and sacred sites.
Reports of those missing include the following:
Smaller numbers of travellers from South Korea, South Africa, Portugal, the Netherlands and New Zealand are also among the missing.
Ashok Dahal and Kamal Pariyar
BBC Nepali, reporting from Nuwakot district
One of the 900 students saved by the headteacher's decision was 16-year-old Yunisha, who says she escaped only moments before the flood.
"I, along with my friends, survived by just 10 seconds," she tells the BBC.
Yunisha describes running up a narrow and muddy route behind the school with other students. "Within no time, the bazaar was swept away in front of my eyes", she adds.
Yunisha, who was interviewed alongside her mother Sabina Shrestha, says the family spent hours desperately trying to contact her after hearing news of the flood.
"I was panicking. I tried multiple calls to my daughter and her father, but both were not reachable."
When she finally got through, Shrestha recalls feeling some relief. But the family remained anxious until Yunisha returned home - three days later.
"I am so happy and relieved. God saved my girl."
Ashok Dahal and Kamal Pariyar
BBC Nepali, reporting from Nuwakot district
The headteacher of a Nepali school devastated by floods says he was prompted to evacuate around 900 pupils to safety after receiving a series of calls warning against the risk of a flood in the area.
Rajendra Dawadi, who leads Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School in Nuwakot - which has a total student population of just over 1,600 - says he received four warnings from different people within minutes.
Teacher saved the lives of 900 students after phone call warning of flood
Among these calls were reports that floodwaters had already swept through the upstream settlement of Betrawati.
That's when he made the call. "I decided I shouldn't delay any more. Even if the flood was not coming, it was just a matter of a single day's classes," he tells the BBC.
As they evacuated to higher ground, Dawadi could see a hostel building about 100m (328ft) from the river being engulfed by floodwaters.
"If we had made the decision 10 minutes later, all of us, including the students and me, would not be able to speak to you today."
Nepal Police says that 788 people have died following the flash floods.
This follows an earlier report from Nepal's National Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Authority (NDRRMA), which says that 752 people have been killed.
As a reminder, information is coming from multiple different agencies in Nepal and official figures don't always match up.
Stephen McDonell
China correspondent
It is pretty grim news from the Tibetan side of the border.
According to officials in Shigatse, the rescue teams are not finding anyone alive.
They have been looking for days and on the fifth day of the emergency chances of finding any other survivors are becoming very small.
With 546 people missing - around half of those foreign nationals - that means the death toll will go up in Tibet.
However, engineers are close to establishing a road link to the worst-hit area after a powerful wave of water and mud destroyed infrastructure in the region.
Sadly, though you have to think that by the time that link is re-established it will be too late for the hundreds of people still missing.
The Nepali Army has just shared footage on X of helicopters airlifting heavy equipment to the flood-affected hydropower tunnel area.
The machinery can be seen dangling from the end of a long rope.
A separate video - also shared by the army - shows workers clearing debris near the Trishuli-3A tunnel.
Helicopter airlifts equipment to site of tunnel rescue
