Nepal floods latest: Officials 'intensifying' efforts to free hundreds believed trapped in
Nepalese media have reported that rescuers are searching for the father of a young girl who was rescued from the floodwaters in Khalte, Rasuwa earlier this week. Local media reports that Ishara, 5, became trapped in a net after she lost hold of her mother's…
Nepalese media have reported that rescuers are searching for the father of a young girl who was rescued from the floodwaters in Khalte, Rasuwa earlier this week. Local media reports that Ishara, 5, became trapped in a net after she lost hold of her.
She was reportedly rescued and taken to a paediatric hospital. Staff there tell Nepal's Online Khabar news site that Ishara arrived to hospital unconscious but was able to provide her name and recount her story after she awoke.
What Happened
No one from her family has been in contact. We don't know whether someone will come looking for her.
Of the more than 2,500 missing people, hundreds are believed to be workers in Nepal's hydropower sites.
Several schools in these two districts, where 2,425 students were studying, have either been flooded or buried.
One school reported that the flood swept away a bus carrying one of its students.
Key Details
Ishara reportedly told staff that her father was in Kathmandu. The news site says that attempts are being made to find her father via social media.
Most of the schools that have been severely damaged are in the Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts.
According to the latest assessment by the Ministry of Education and Sports, more than 200 students are missing and about 20 have been swept away by the floods.
At least nine schools have been destroyed and seven others have been partially damaged, and teachers and students have been reported missing at several institutions.
Why It Matters
In Kathmandu, BBC Nepali has spoken to people leaving pictures of missing loved ones on the wall of a hospital in the hope of finding them. Meanwhile, at the Trishuli-3A hydroelectric facility, rescuers have managed to create a hole wide enough to.
At least 19 schools have been affected across the three districts worst hit by the floods, Nepal's education ministry says.
"I hope they could be found among them," she says.
What Reports Say
Coverage of the story so far points to:
Continued reporting by BBC as more details emerge
