Nuwakot Has Left at Least 160 People Dead, With Rescue Teams Continuing Their Search for Survivors on the Second Day of the Disaster

Keshav Prasad Baral, a 68-year-old survivor receiving treatment at a small hospital, told of his harrowing experience. "When I went inside to grab my wife's hand to flee together, she was swept away by the mud," he said. "Four to five hours later, a helicopter came to rescue me.

But my wife is still somewhere under the mud. She is gone. At a hospital in Kathmandu, BBC reporters witnessed rescued survivors being airlifted in by helicopter, while crowds of people gathered desperately seeking news of missing family members.

One eyewitness described the scene as "extremely chaotic, recalling that "around 6 a.m., the whole family woke up startled. We heard a very loud sound from outside and thought someone must have died." He added that rescue workers were urgently needed, with people running frantically but no one knowing what to do. AP drone footage showed the village near the Trishuli River in Nuwakot district completely covered in gray mud, with destroyed roads and buried buildings. Rescue workers in vests could be seen amid the debris, while villagers watched helplessly from a distance as boulders and mud made access difficult.