Nepal Compiles List of 597 Foreign Nationals Missing After Floods (Names Included)
Flood damage in Betrawati, Rasuwa. Residents are in crisis after losing homes, farmland, livestock and livelihoods. (Danda Gurung)
KATHMANDU, Nepal — A total of 597 foreign nationals from 34 countries remain unaccounted for following the devastating floods and landslides that struck Nepal on Aug. 26, according to the Department of Immigration of Nepal.
India has the largest number of nationals listed as missing, with 191, followed by the United States with 66, Malaysia with 55, Ukraine with 54, and Australia and Latvia with 33 each.
Canada has 30 nationals listed as missing, followed by China with 29. The list includes 32 nationals from the United Kingdom; nine each from Russia and Singapore; eight from Germany; six from South Africa; five each from Japan and New Zealand; and four from France.
Three nationals each are listed as missing from Belgium and Kazakhstan. Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain each have two nationals listed as missing.
One national each is listed as missing from Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Israel, Lithuania, the Philippines, Sweden, Switzerland and Vietnam.
The Department of Immigration said the 597 foreign nationals were reported missing through 39 entries involving travel agencies, trekking companies, embassies, rental companies and individual informants. Individual names, email addresses and telephone numbers were omitted from the records to protect privacy.
The largest reported groups were associated with The Trekkers’ Society, with 77 people listed as missing; Samrat Tours and Travels Pvt. Ltd., with 71; Richa Treks, with 68; Tashi Delek Treks and Expedition, with 58; Fly Everest Holidays Pvt. Ltd., with 49; Leaf Holidays, with 42; Himalayan Glacier, with 38; Kailash Journey, with 26; and Fishtail, with 20.
Last Known Contacts
The Department of Immigration records include accounts of the last known communications involving guides, staff members, travelers and other contacts. The accounts have not been independently verified, and they do not establish that the missing people are dead.
Samrat Tours and Travels reported that 110 people — 92 Indian tourists, 13 staff members and five drivers — had traveled toward Rasuwa. A 32-member group from Kolkata, accompanied by a guide, reportedly completed departure procedures at Nepal immigration but was not recorded as having entered China. A separate 60-member group from Chennai, accompanied by a guide and traveling in three buses, was staying in Syafrubesi. The company reported that 21 members of that group had been confirmed safe and sent to India in coordination with the Indian Embassy. One staff member reportedly survived after jumping to safety and later notified the company, while two drivers were also reported safe, bringing the total confirmed safe from that group to 24.
Other reports placed several groups at or near immigration facilities shortly before communications were lost. Leaf Holidays reported that its last contact came at about 8:30 a.m., when a relative told the company’s contact person that the group had reached immigration. No further contact was reported. A volunteer affiliated with the Isha Foundation reportedly told The Trekkers’ Society at about 9:05 a.m. that the group was at immigration.
A guide working with Kailash Journey reportedly told the company at about 7:30 a.m. that the group was traveling from Timure toward the China border. Himalayan Glacier said it last spoke with a guide at about 8 p.m. on Aug. 25. The guide reported that 36 people were staying at Kailash Hotel in Ghattekhola and 11 others were at Hotel Royal Himalayan in Syafrubesi. The company said it tried to re-establish contact at about 9 a.m. on Aug. 26 to arrange for the guide’s passport to be sent by helicopter but could not reach the guide.
A member of a Fishtail group reportedly contacted family at about 8:30 a.m. and said the team had reached the area between Ghattekhola and Timure. A guide with Dream Tibet Travel & Tours reportedly contacted the company at about 8:15 a.m. and said the group had entered China and that telephone calls might not connect afterward.
A guide working with Richa Treks reportedly said at about 7:20 a.m. that the group was at Friendship Bridge after staying at Hotel Ankila the previous night. Explore Vacation reported that a guide said at about 8:14 a.m. that the team had received immigration stamps at Ghattekhola and was proceeding toward the border. The company said a Chinese guide had been notified through WeChat that the group was approaching. A later communication with the Chinese guide indicated that the group was not allowed to proceed because flooding had occurred in Kerung on the Chinese side.
Alpine Eco Treks reported that a guide said at about 8 a.m. that 16 foreign nationals had reached the Chinese side while the remaining Nepali members of the team were waiting in line at Friendship Bridge. Kathmandu Holiday Tours and Travels reported speaking with a staff member at about 7:32 a.m. who said the person was at immigration in Ghattekhola.
Mundhum Travels reported that it last contacted a guide in Timure at about 8:07 a.m. That group consisted of six Nepali nationals and no foreign citizens.
A porter associated with Tashi Delek Treks and Expedition reportedly said at about 8:40 a.m. that the group had arrived at immigration. The group was traveling from Tibet toward Nepal. Mighty Himalayan reported receiving information at about 8:40 a.m. that its Nepali guide and group had reached the border area.
Fly Everest Holidays reported that an Indian team leader said at about 8:40 a.m. that the group was inside the immigration building. A contact associated with a group led by Sher Bahadur Tamang reportedly said at about 8 a.m. that about 60 people were toward the back of the line at Friendship Bridge. A voice message sent from the border also indicated that the group was there. The last reported communication, at about 8:38 a.m., said only, “OK.”
The Department of Immigration records indicate that several groups were near immigration facilities, Friendship Bridge, Timure, Ghattekhola, Syafrubesi or the Nepal-China border in the hours before communication was lost.
The figure of 597 represents foreign nationals who remain unaccounted for in the Department of Immigration’s records. It does not mean they have been confirmed dead. Some could be stranded, separated from family members or unable to communicate.
The Aug. 26 disaster caused widespread flooding, landslides and destruction in several parts of Nepal, with some of the worst damage reported in Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading. The disaster also affected the Bhote Koshi, Trishuli and Narayani river corridors and severely disrupted roads and border routes.
The disaster had a major impact on areas used by foreign travelers, including routes toward Rasuwagadhi and the Nepal-China border. Search-and-rescue teams have been working to locate missing people, recover bodies and identify victims.
Full List of Unaccounted Foreign Nationals
The following is the full country-by-country list of foreign nationals recorded as unaccounted for by the Department of Immigration of Nepal:
Australia — 33
Agasty Gopi Krishna Naidu
Adhikari Sumi
Ashwin Muralitharan
Bhardwaj Karan
Bhoomi Mahenrakumar Patel
Chandrasekharan Muralitharan
Chitra Venkatraman
Costanzo Luke Christopher
Keats Michael Ryan
Kothari Arpan Mithalal
Krishna Sharma
Kumar Ramaswamy Sampath
Lakshmi Sreedharan Iyer
Mangwani Bharat
Mohapatra Sandeep
Nayaka Shivaprasad Rakesh
Narayan Panthi
Patelreshma Bhavin
Raval Bhavinkumar Rajnikant
Rajeswari Sharma
Rishabh Sreedharan Iyer
Rudhra Sreesharan Iyer
Sahu Sidharthi Kumari
Shivamurthy Kripa
Shivamurthy Uday
Shylaja Muralitharan
Spry Renee Therese
Sreedharan Iyer
Sruthi Chandrasekaran
Sundrasan Kanagamah
Umesh Sharma
Venkatraman Balakrishnan
Aarush Muralitharan
Belarus — 1
Katerina Sakovich
Belgium — 3
Ekaterina Alekseevna Zhidkova
Iuliia Mikhailova
Julija Jakovicka
Canada — 30
Akanksha Patel
Ananian Zepur
Bagrecha Swati
Brar Gurpreet Kaur
Carolyn Lorraine Crook
Dhanesha Bhavesh
Dolma Yang Chen
Himashu Agarwal
Ishan Patel
Jagdishbhai Patel
Jamie Vernon Smith
Kaushik Mohit
Khatri Ruchi
Mahendra Gupta
Megha Shah
Nabeel Jaffer
Norbu Lama
Padmaben Patel
Poonam Dilipkumar Thakkar
Raina Gireesh
Reguri Vinak Kumar Reddy
Rgrover Anil
Rgrover Samira
Sanas Tanuja Devram
Shilpa Patel
Singh Sneha
Smita Jain
Somayajula Sai Prasad
Umeshkumar Patel
Zohuri Kanishka
China — 29
Chen Fuan
Chen Jianqiao
Chen Xiqi
Cui Luping
Cul Luping
Deng Dasong
Deng Dianhong
Deng Miyu
Ding Kehao
Ding Yanming
Fang Chibin
Fu Jishan
Gong Dayan
Gong Xinyi
Gu Jun
He Hongrong
Kalsang Tsedan
Li Wei
Li Xiang
Liu Haifei
Liu Hongjun
Liu Li
Peng Tao
Qiu Wenjin
Sun Zhongyan
Tashi Dhondup
Wang Chunrong
Xie Yajie
Zhang Tao
Estonia — 1
Maria Aleksandrova
Finland — 1
Chodhary Priyanka
France — 4
Benredouane Betty
Culan Yysanavi
Kateryna Duzenko
Mahajan Kapil
Germany — 8
Dimitri Kishkurno
Ganesan Harihariharasudan
Gielow Steffen
Juri Kupper
Roeder Kristina
Ruslan Langolf
Wellert Karin
Yurii Ruzhyn
Hungary — 1
Szabo Ildiko
India — 191
Abhishek Suresh Ghone
Alpa Samir Karkhanis
Amarnath Pal
Amutha Kumar
Anagha Annamdevara
Anand Shankar Deshpande
Ananda Sundari Damodhyran
Anbarasu Venkatachalam
Anbazhagi Ampikapathy
Anirban Bhattacharyya
Anita Das
Aparna Samir Joshi
Arindom Ganguly
Arulmani Palanivel
Arushi Gupta
Arutchelvan Govindarajan
Ashokkumar Kapdi
Asokan Ramasamy Gounder
Atul Das
Avanish Bharat Merchant
Balasubramanian Rama Samy
Chandiran Kuppusamy
Chandrasekaran Murugappan
Chetana Anand Gupta
Chithradevi Nagaraj
Chitra Matta Venkatachalapathy
Dhaval Shah
Debabrata Roy Choudhury
Debasish Banerjee
Deepali Sarkar
Dhanalakshmi Nallusamy
Dhanpal Reddy Rallagudam
Elavarasi Rajendran
Gajanan Pathak
Gayathiri Devi Prakash
Gayatri Deshpande
Geeta Sanjeev Jalindre
Geeta Sushil Kulkarni
Geetha Ramaswamy
Geetha Vaidhyanythasamy
Gopal Arunachalam
Janhavi Milind Chitley
Jay Dinesh Kotecha
Jayalakshmi Kumaraguruparan
Jayalakshmi Ramanathan
Jayanta Sanyal
Jayanthi Raj Kumar
Jitendra Pramod Patil
Jyoti Paresh Patel
Kalaichelvi Ramasamy
Kanagasundarambal Ganesan
Kannammal Nakllathambi
Karpagam Periyasamy
Kedhara Gowri Sainath
Keya Pramanik
Kishore Kumar
Krishnaveni Krishnansamy
Krishnaveni Natarajan
Kshitish Chandra Biswas
Kumar Devdas Advani
Kumaraguruparan Srinivasan
Kumudhavalli Sarangapani
Lathabanumathi Gurusamy
Laxminarayan Mallachari Acharrya
Lekha Roy Choudhury
Lopamudra Kundu
Mamata Biswas
Mamtha Thimmarayasamy
Manash Kumar Ghosh
Manasi Pravin Gokhale
Manikandan Virthachalam Muthusamy
Manisha Pradeep Pawar
Manju Roy Chowdhury
Manju Shanker
Manjula Vikraman
Marayi Ramasamy
Mari Meenal Ayyadurai
Meenakshi Sanjay Ramani
Meenakshi Subramanian
Meenatchi Nandakumar
Milind Purushottam Chitley
Mitali Mondal
Monica Sanjeev Jain
Moorthy Eswaran
Mou Mandal
Mousumi Ganguly
Munil Kumar Sah
Muruganantham
Nagalakshmi Muthu Chettiar
Nalini Sanjay Patil
Natarajan Mohana Gounder
Nikhil Ranjan Biswas
Nirmala Selvan
Nitin Shantaram Gadre
Nripen Sarkar
Padma Mahadevan
Padmini Moorthy
Palanivel Palaniappan
Paresh Natwarlal Patel
Payal Das
Pramod Prasad
Premavani Ilayaraja
Prerana Pramod Kale
Punitha Chandrasehar
Pushpa Vijayakumar
Pushpalatha Manoharan
Puspa Rani Ramchandran
Raghavan Krishnakumar
Raj Thirthramchand
Rajakumar Dhanabal
Rajalakshμι Vezhavendan
Rajanish Raghunath Natu
Rajaram Venkatesan
Rajashree Satish Pathak
Rajesh Oak
Rajeshwari Udhayakumar
Ram Babu Sah
Ram Kuamar Ganesan
Ramakrishnan Kothandaraman Nellaipalli
Ramesh Babu Chopparapu
Ramesh Pakirisamy
Ranajit Kumar Howlader
Ranjeet Kumar Gupta
Rashmi Oak
Ravindra Sing
Rebecca David
Rekha Satish Patankar
Rema Kothandaraman
Rina Banerjee
Roma Dilipbhai Intwala
Sainath Subramaniam
Samir Mukund Joshi
Sanghamitra Banerjee
Sanjay Rajmal Patil
Sanjeevkumar Davinderkumar Jain
Sankar Venkatachalam
Saraswathi Natarajan
Saraswathi Rajagopal
Sarita Pradeep Kamath
Sarmistha Bhowmik Roy
Sarulatha Sadasivam
Sasirekha Nagarajan
Satish Vinayak Patankar
Satish Vishnu Pathak
Sathyanarayanan Maravel
Sayed Umar Farook Sayeed Sadiq
Selvam Natarajan
Senthil Palani
Shanker Lakshmanan
Shikha Naskar Biswas
Shivanth Prakash
Sipra Roy
Sivagnanam Veerasami
Sivayo Gam Ranga Nathan
Smita Dinesh Joshi
Snehashis Dutta
Srividya Shankar
Subhaschandra Ghosh
Subhrasree Chakraborty
Suhail Gupta
Sundararajan Nachimbuthu
Sunil Sudarshan Subhedar
Suresh Venkatachalam Arumugam
Sushil Dattatray Kulkarni
Susmita Bhattacharya
Swapan Kumar Sinha
Swapan Mandal
Tamilselvan Subramanian
Thaiyanayaki Thirumulairajan
Thamilarasi Asokan
Thangalakshmi Jothiramalingam
Thangamathi Perumal
Thenathayaal Dasaratharaman
Thimmarayasamy Chinnamuniyappa
Thiripura Sundari Mahalingam
Thirumalai Rajan Jayaraman
Umesh Prasad
Vaishnevy Ramassamy
Veena Bhimaji Kulkarni
Venkata Subramanian
Venkatram Annamdevara
Venkatraman Krishnamoorthy
Vezhavendan Pandurangan
Vidhyavati Acharrya
Vijay Prasad Yadav
Vijayalakshmi Murugesan
Vikraman Kuppuswamy
Vimala Ravi
Vinayak Mukunda Tambwekar
Vir Kishor Kumar
Yashas BhandIRSHI
Ireland — 2
Santosh Sahu
Spandan Sahu
Israel — 1
Cohen Ron
Italy — 2
Luca Barachini
Marco Ratto
Japan — 5
Yamamoto Hayato
Yamamoto Kanako
Yamamoto Kayoko
Yamamoto Ryuto
Yamamoto Toshitaka
Kazakhstan — 3
Chshe Rbaanna
Dashkevich Svetlana
Irina Blonskaya
Latvia — 33
Arija Lace
Evita Sarma
Igors Dobrovolskis
Sofija Dobrovolska
Olga Labada
Anna Paholova
Anzelika Tuce
Čarna Liga
Circene Eleonora
Dimitrijs Grisins
Eisaka-Jefimova Vita
Fūrmane Agnese
Fūrmanis Raimonds
Inga Veisa
Jakovicka Julija
Jefimovs Sergejs
Kalniņa Lilita
Ķerliņa Egija
Kiršblūma Irita
Kļaviņš Raimonds
Krinicka Svetlana
Lena Julija
Okuna Svetlana
Olga Vanaga
Safronova Irina
Šķērīte Vineta
Straume Sandra
Timofejeva Jelena
Viktorija Darakova
Zambers Sergejs
Anna Grigorjeva
Rejina Krasnopgorova
Tatjana Valuskina
Lithuania — 1
Kozlovaite Felita
Malaysia — 55
A Ganesan Anandan
Appannah A Muthaloo
Arunasalam Karuppiah
Azman Bin Karim
Balasingam Kesavan
Brabaakaran Krishnan
Eswary Mani Raj
Gunanesan Vellaisamy
Gunavathy Muthusamy
Inthumathy Subramaniam
Jason Ngeow
Kalai Mathe Karuppaiah
Kalaiselvi P Narayanasamy
Kannan Kerisna
Karunanithi Sundram
Kirubanithi Alagappan
Komathi Rethinam
Krishnan Vadivelu
Letchumy Sinnappan
Lingam Samykanoo
Low Hock Meng
Malani M Vellu
Mangala Vanan Krishnasamy
Mohd Fakhrul Munir Bin Mohd Isa
Mohd Nohan Bin Salim
Mohd Padzil Bin Daros
Mohd Sani Bin Harul
Muhammad Adib Haikal Bin Awang Mansor
Muhammad Haziq Bin Ismail
Muhammad Muhaimin Azhad Bin Noor Hadi
Muhammad Zaki Bin Othman
Muhamad Nasir Bin Abdul Talib
Murukan Supramaniam
Nahentran Ganasan
Navein Palani
Neelavany Marimuthu
Padmahwathi A Govindasamy
Poobalan Murgaya
Poornima Alagappan
Rajita Sivan
Raman Supramaniam
Ravindar Ayyavoo
S Gomathi Sitoralingam
S Ramu Sawasamy
Santhanaletchmy Tirugnanasambandam
Saraswathi Nagaratnam
Saratha Alagappan
Shabuddin Bin Mun
Suguna Balan
Thanapalan Muthoo
Vallie Palaniasamy
Vanajah Vadival
Vennila Muniandy
Vijayan Perumal
Yougesvari Subramaniam
Netherlands — 2
Berghuis Christiaan Jacobus
Moolhuijsen Maaike Helena Werina
New Zealand — 5
Kandimalla Suhasini Reddy
Kuzmic Dejan
Mhatre Sweta Pravin
Patel Kinnari Mihir
Patel Mihirkumar Mahendrabhai
Philippines — 1
Manalo Juan Carlos
Poland — 2
Janina Danuta Fornalik
Ksenia Winska
Portugal — 2
Gorncalves Gomes Sara Maria
Inna Bida
Russia — 9
Alexander Zimin
Anna Pak
Elena Oksuz / Elena Oksyuz
Kiseleva Natalia Aleksandrovna
Kirill Tretiakov
Natalia Kiseleva
Oleg Khatsenko
Saar Katrin
Singapore — 9
Adity Ghosh
Estee Loeh Hui Ling
Ng Kit Kuen
Rajesvaran Ayyavoo
Rengarajan Prabu
Shalinny Deavy Do Elan Sozan
Subhakshi Rawala
Subramaniam So Diraviam
Sumit Rawla
South Africa — 6
Anitha Devi Maharaj
Govender Terricia
Janet Pillay
Ramjee Bavika
Surendranath Maharaj
Vivaganathan Pilly
Spain — 2
Des Alcala Gisela
Szabo Illes Edina
Sweden — 1
Elena Kozlova
Switzerland — 1
Patrizia Marziale
UK — 32
Anal Kar
Ankita Chandra
Atmakur Praveen Goud
Avvari Abhinav
Avvari Deepthi
Avvari Sridhar
Basnet Yashika
Bector Leena Bhupesh
Bipin Patel
Chhetri Nelly Maya
Geetha Adinarayana Reddy
Gupta Meena
Hema Sunil Amin
Hemangini Jitendra Patel
Kankonkar Preeti Ravindra
Kar Sanjukta
Kavitha Haldia
Kaza Ajanta
Mala Patel
Nabhi Nandan Das
Pankaj Naug
Pavan Haldia
Ranjan Ankit
Sarada Kaphle
Sri Ranganathan Shamila
Sunanda Manirajan
Surabhi Manmath Padhy
Syna Kumari Sahu
Tare Manish
Tara Gurung
Tejkumari Gurung
Tiwari Neetu Goyal
Ukraine — 54
Alina Dosenko
Andrii Kysil
Andrii Makarenko
Anna Yevtushenko
Daria Bielova
Dariia Suvilova
Elena Horlova
Galyna Kovalevska
Ganna Monakhova
Hanna Istoshyna
Ievgeniia Malaia
Inna Oshmarina
Iryna Chebanu
Iryna Kripak
Iryna Ladygina
Iryna Lysiuk
Iryna Malukhova
Kateryna Bolgarova
Larysa Molodets
Lesia Lutsenko Myskiv
Liudmyla Kylivnyk
Natalia Godlevska
Nataliia Doroshuk
Nataliia Field
Nataliia Shmatko
Nataliia Vlasova
Nikita Oloviatenko
Oksana Batyshcheva
Oksana Dryha
Oksana Yakushchenko
Oleksandr Bida
Oleksandr Bilyi
Oleksandr Sologub
Oleksandra Rodina
Olena Bychkovska
Olena Kalynychenko
Olena Kulikova
Olena Kurakina
Olena Nikiforova
Olena Shevchenko
Olena Strashenko
Olena Tomashevska
Olga Golikova
Olga Vasylenko
Olha Patis
Polina Kulak
Sofiia Oloviatenko
Stanislav Arsonov
Tetiana Liukova
Valeriia Slukina
Volodymyr Ruzhyn
Yevheniia Mamchur
Yuliiia Koval
Yuriy Marchenko
USA — 66
Ahuja Deepak
Ahuja Madhu
Alka Malhotra
Amita Amin
Anil Goel
Anjana Raja
Archana Suresh
Atluri Sasi Kumar
Balaji Deepa
Belahal Mukti Chandrakant
Bina P Parikh
Cantrell Mark Allen
Chand Vandana
Daya Ganesh Bale
Dineshbhai P Patel
Gaurav Menon
Ginoya Ketan Girishbhai
Hanumantha Rao Unnava
Jaiminaben Bimalbhai Patel
Jiwan Jyoti
Jitendra Manubhai Patel
Keshav Rao Tadipatri
Kirti Acharaya
Krishnaganth Ramya Durga
Laxminath Gopisetty
Liudmila Dmitrievna Mikhailova
Malhotra Alka
Menon Gaurav
Merchant Jignesh Vijaykumar
Merchant Tejal Jignesh
Misra Pankaj
Misra Poonam
Misra Ragini
Naru Shivananda Reddy
Neelam Kumari Sharma
Nimmagadda Rajayalakshki
Pandellapalli Suresh
Pattabiraman Venkatesan
Putta Swetha
Radhakrishnan Anitha
Rajan Raghu
Ramesh Sharma
Rashi Shashidharan
Rekha Shashidharan
Rodge Harshawardhan
Sabole Vishnu Vandana
Sabolew
Sajeepa Prabhath
Samala Latha Rao
Shital Chetan Chohan
Sonduripantangi Padmavatya
Sorensen Mary Theresa
Sriram Janani
Srinivas Sudhir Rangu
Sudhindra Yapal Parvi
Tejal Vyomesh Patel
Thapa Rachana
Unnava Vasundhara
Venkat Bangalore
Venkatachalam Balaji
Venkata Krishnan / Venkatakrishna Raghunath Rao
Venkataraman Balasubramanyam
Vennelganti Balsubramanyam S M M
Venus Patel
Vejella Sridevi
Vivek Shankar Srivastav
Yaj Vora Txuj
Bimalbhai R Patel
Vietnam — 1
Pham Hung
Editor’s Note: Passport numbers, mobile phone numbers and dates of birth have been removed from the list to protect personal data and privacy. Readers or authorized parties seeking to verify passport numbers or dates of birth may contact the Department of Immigration of Nepal for verification. The figures in this list reflect the number of foreign nationals reported to the Department of Immigration of Nepal as unaccounted for and may not represent the total number reported missing by individual countries. For example, U.S. authorities have reported 70 U.S. citizens as unaccounted for, compared with 66 U.S. nationals listed in the Department of Immigration’s records. The overall number could also be higher because some foreign nationals may have crossed into China or could be missing on the Chinese side of the Nepal-China border, where information remains limited.