Anadolu staff
09 July 2025•Update: 09 July 2025
ANKARA
A search operation continued for 20 missing people on Wednesday after landslides hit a border port between China and Nepal a day earlier, according to The Himalayan Times.
So far, nine people have been killed while a flash flood has also caused heavy damage to infrastructure in the border area, the Nepalese media reported.
According to the Rasuwa District Administration Office, the flash flood affected the critical infrastructure in the area as a key cross-border link between Nepal and China was completely swept away.
The Syafrubesi-Rasuwagadhi road section is now impassable, and the Rasuwa Customs Office, its dry port yard in Timure, an EV charging station, and the Rasuwagadhi Hydropower Project dam have all sustained various levels of damage while around 35 electric vehicles, 23 container trucks, and six Sino trucks were swept away in the flood.
Authorities said 55 people were rescued from the areas affected by the floods, including 50 Nepali citizens, one Chinese national, and four Indian nationals.
Chinese authorities alerted Nepal to the risk of further flooding as rain continued in Tibet's Nyalam region.
On Tuesday, local authorities said that heavy rainfall on the Chinese side brought heavy flash floods in the Lende River, damaging the yard of the Customs Office at Rasuwagadhi border point with China.
Authorities have deployed more than 210 personnel and nearly 40 vehicles in search and rescue operations.
More than 350 people have been relocated.
*Writing by Islamuddin Sajid
