Death Toll Hits 1,385 on Day 17 as the Devighat Bridge Opens and 104 Bodies Get Names
This is a special report in our Bhote Koshi / Rasuwa flood series.
- Devastating Flash Flood Hits Nepal’s Rasuwa District Near Tibet Border
- Nepal / China Flood Update: Death Toll Climbs to 469 as a New Natural Dam Threatens Another Surge
- Nepal Flood Day 4: Death Toll Passes 620 as Missing Lists Stretch Across 30+ Countries
- Nepal Flood Day 6: Death Toll Hits 903, Tunnel Rescues Intensify, and the World Starts Sending Aid
- Nepal Flood Day 7: Death Toll Crosses 1,000 as Tunnel Teams Push Deeper and Aid Passes $42 Million
- Climate Justice After Rasuwa: Who Pays When Nepal Emits Almost Nothing — and Loses Everything
- Nepal Flood Day 8: Death Toll Hits 1,204, Tunnel Rescue Stalls in Mud, and Kathmandu Takes the Climate Bill Abroad
- Solana Raises $166,946 for Nepal Flood Relief as the Death Toll Reaches 1,252
- NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang Pledges $10 Million as Fresh Flood Alerts Return and 1,252 Bodies Are Counted
- Two Men Walk Out of Trishuli-3A After Nine Days in the Dark
- Two More Alive: Chinese Worker From Trishuli-1 and a 64-Year-Old Woman From a Buried House in Betrawati
- 1,341 Recovered, Nearly 5,000 Still Missing, and the Saturday Survivors Reach Hospital
- Death Toll Hits 1,355 on Day 13 as Nepal Marks a National Day of Mourning
- 1,357 Recovered, 5,326 Missing, and Day 14 Turns From Rescue Toward Identification
- Death Toll Reaches 1,377 as DNA Work Outpaces New Rescues
Seventeen days after the surge, Friday’s 11 a.m. NDRRMA sheet is 1,385 recovered and 5,130 missing. The missing number did not fall. Eight more bodies were found. Two more were named. No fifth person came out of a tunnel.
Friday morning sheet
NDRRMA, 11 September 2026, 11:00 a.m.
- 1,385 bodies recovered
- 5,130 missing (same as Thursday after 104 identified bodies were taken off the list)
- 13,676 rescued
- 21,022 security personnel still deployed
- 37 holding centres — 2,615 in Nuwakot, 775 in Rasuwa, 295 in Dhading
- more than 1,700 helicopter flights to date
Recovered by district
| Place | Bodies |
|---|---|
| Chitwan | 364 |
| Nawalparasi East | 228 |
| Nawalparasi West | 222 |
| Nuwakot | 199 |
| Rasuwa | 185 |
| Gorkha | 77 |
| Dhading | 70 |
| Tanahun | 38 |
| Died in Kathmandu hospitals | 2 |
Rasuwa’s recovered count jumped from 178 on Thursday to 185. That is seven bodies in one district overnight. The rest of the rise is scattered.
Tibet / Gyirong remains in the earlier band of about 43 dead and 519 missing. Combined confirmed dead is still near 1,430.
A bridge, not a miracle
The one piece of infrastructure news that matters today: the Acrow / temporary bridge over the Tadi at Devighat is open. MoFA recorded it yesterday. ANI repeated it this morning. That is the first fixed crossing on a stretch that had been forcing trucks and LPG onto air and long detours.
It does not reopen the whole Prithvi Highway. It does mean Nuwakot and points north can take more road tonnage than they could on Monday.
The tunnels are still three holes in the mud
There is no Friday live rescue. The hunt is still Chilime, Trishuli-3A and 3B. About 121 hydropower workers were still thought to be underground as of the start of the week. Oxygen pipes and pumps are in. Voices are not.
The living four from last weekend have not been joined:
- Sanjay Sah and Kabir Maharjan — Trishuli-3A, 4 September
- Lu Haitao — Trishuli-1, 5 September
- Chandika Kumari Shrestha — Betrawati, 5 September
Identification crawls
104 bodies now have names and families. That is two more than Wednesday. DNA sampling from earlier in the week stood at 2,698 (victims plus relatives). More than a thousand remains are already in temporary burial after samples were taken. Police still publish unidentified profiles for families to check.
Until those matches land, 1,385 recovered and 5,130 missing will keep sitting on the same page.
Small money, school desks
USV Pharma put Rs 15 million toward flood victims through the Nepal Medical Association. The Rising Nepal also noted 132 displaced students enrolled at a school this week. That is not reconstruction. It is the first ordinary thing returning — a child in a classroom while the river corridor is still a recovery site.
India’s eighth IAF flight and the 130-tonne running total from Wednesday have not been followed by a ninth in this morning’s sheet.
What Friday changes
Yesterday: 1,377 recovered, DNA ahead of rescue.
Today: 1,385 recovered, 104 named, Devighat open, 5,130 still gone.
Day 17 is a bridge and eight more bodies. It is not another voice from the dark.
Keep riverbanks clear. Missing-person queries: rescue.opmcm.gov.np, 1234, Police 100, NDRRMA 1155. Official donations: pmdrf.nchl.com.np.
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Sources
- NDRRMA 11:00 a.m., 11 September 2026 — ANI / Nepal News: 1,385 recovered, 5,130 missing, 13,676 rescued; district table; 104 identified.
- Kantipur, 10 September evening — 1,377 / 5,130 / 13,676; 104 handed over.
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs daily update, 10 September 2026, 14:00 NPT — Devighat Acrow bridge open; 1,377 / 5,130 / 13,656.
- Reuters, 8 September — Chilime, Trishuli-3A and 3B still the tunnel focus.
- The Rising Nepal, 11 September — USV Pharma Rs 15 million; 132 displaced students enrolled.
- Previous series post: Death Toll Reaches 1,377…
Research and editing note
Researched and drafted with Grok (xAI). Recovered count moved 1,377 → 1,385 in 24 hours. Missing total held at 5,130 after identified bodies were deducted. All figures remain provisional.