New Delhi: Authorities in Nepal have warned of the possibility of more floods on Sunday (August 30) and urged residents in flood-affected districts to remain on high alert. As of 8 AM today, the death toll from the devastating floods has risen to 734, per Nepal Police, while thousands are missing.Authorities have warned that water levels rose again in the Bhotekoshi river. Flood warning notices were sent to people’s phones early morning, while rescue crews worked to clear a major highway connecting Kathmandu to Dhading, one of the areas worst hit by the catastrophic floods that began on August 26. रसुवा जिल्लामा आएको बाढी सम्बन्धी अपडेट (मितिः २०८३/०५/१४ गते ०८:०० बजेसम्म) pic.twitter.com/8KtHHH7Ct1— Nepal Police (@NepalPoliceHQ) August 30, 2026Speaking to The Associated Press, a Dhadin resident who had returned for his chickens, which he found alive, put them in the cabin of his truck.“Everything is finished. Nothing is left. Not even our home,” Sharmila Tamang, told AP.More than 3,000 are said to be missing in Nepal and Tibet so far. Of them, more than 900 workers are missing at hydropower projects in Nepal, per reports.In a press briefing on Saturday (August 29) evening, India’s Ministry of External Affairs said that at least 275 Indians who were in Nepal at the time of the floods are missing, and another 128 persons of Indian origin are also missing. A total of 108 Indians had been rescued till Saturday evening, while contact had been re-established with another 50.The Kathmandu Post reported, citing Nepal’s electricity authority, that the Bhotekoshi floods on Wednesday may have caused losses running into hundreds of billions of rupees across more than a dozen hydropower projects and electricity transmission infrastructure, far exceeding initial estimates by private sector developers.At least 13 hydropower projects, both operational and under construction, have been damaged in Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts, per the report.In the town of Galchhi, a group of residents sought higher ground on a nearby bridge and watched as the river roared by. Some pointed to enormous rocks washed downriver during the earlier floods, while others standing on a suspension bridge were warned off with whistles.Along the river, homes, vehicles and farm tractors could be seen jutting from the thick gray-brown sediment that enveloped entire villages in the worst-hit flood areas. Parts of rice terraces along the riverside had dropped into the river after landslides hit them.Chinese authorities reported 16 deaths and 546 missing on the Chinese side of the border on Sunday. Chinese state media said 261 foreigners were missing in Tibet, including over a hundred Nepalis and others from around the world.Meanwhile, large concrete and smaller suspension bridges have been destroyed by the floods, leaving communities on the other side of the river with less easy access.“Those who are there are now stuck there. Those who are here are stuck here. It’s going to be very difficult,” said Sattan Singh Tamang, who was working near a bridge near the Nepal-China border when Wednesday’s floods struck.As the Nepal government prepared for a post-disaster needs assessment, preliminary estimates reportedly suggest that Himalayan country could require around US$5 billion for reconstruction and rehabilitation.On Friday, a newly-formed lake on the China-Nepal border just a few kilometres above Nepal’s Rasuwagadhi, where the ice-rock avalanche that triggered floods in Nepal on August 26 occurred, overflowed prompting a temporary halt to search efforts amid fears of a second flood.The flash floods on Wednesday started after a glacial collapse high in the Himalayan region. Scientists who studied satellite images said bedrock underneath a glacier high in the Himalayan region had collapsed, taking part of the glacier with it. The rockfall was so extreme that it registered as an earthquake of magnitude 5.2.