Eighty-nine passengers pulled from a flooded BP Highway by rope, in the dark, over nine hours

It began around 5 p.m. Five microbuses on the BP Highway between Laskot and Ghumaune in Roshi Rural Municipality-7 of Kavrepalanchok district were caught in a section of road that crosses the Roshi River. Heavy rainfall upstream raised the river without warning. Within minutes the road was a torrent and the vehicles were islands. The first calls reached the security forces by mid-evening. A joint operation was assembled almost immediately: a team from the Nepali Army, a unit of the Armed Police Force, and the local Nepal Police. They mobilised ropes, life jackets, and inflatable rafting boats — much of it equipment normally used for whitewater tourism on the Trishuli and Bhote Koshi. The rescue ran from late evening through the night. Working in the dark on a current that no one could see properly, rescuers ferried passengers a few at a time along fixed ropes strung between the vehicles and the bank. By dawn on Tuesday, every one of the 89 passengers had been pulled out alive. Not a single fatality was recorded. The total operation took roughly nine hours. It is among the largest successful coordinated water rescues in Nepal in recent memory.