{"id":20572,"date":"2026-08-29T05:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/29\/nepal-flash-flood-nuwakot-villages-missing-tourists\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T05:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:45:15","slug":"nepal-flash-flood-nuwakot-villages-missing-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/29\/nepal-flash-flood-nuwakot-villages-missing-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Flood in Nepal Buries Villages in Mud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aerial images from the Devighat Dham area in Nuwakot district, Nepal, show that the flash flood on Aug. 26 buried large parts of riverside residential areas under mud.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, more than 1,000 people remain missing, including hundreds of foreign tourists. The scale of the damage in the published images has been described as extensive.<\/p>\n<p>Nepali authorities have warned that there is a risk of another wave of flooding as well as landslides. For this reason, rescue operations in some areas have been temporarily suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Nuwakot district is among Nepal&#8217;s mountainous regions, where areas typically face the risk of flooding and landslides during the rainy season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flash floods in Nepal\u2019s Nuwakot district buried villages in mud, leaving more than 1,000 people missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}