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As search and rescue efforts continue on Friday following flash floods and mudslides in northern Nepal, UN humanitarians are taking stock of the devastation amid concerns over more flooding to come.
STORY Nepal floods update – UN OCHA, UNDRR, IFRC, WHO
TRT: 4:32’’
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: WHO NEPAL BROLL - CREDIT WHO NEPAL ON SCREEN; UNICEF BROLL - CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/NATS
ASPECT RATIO: 16:9
DATELINE: 28 AUGUST 2026 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND and 27 AUGUST 2026, NUWAKOT DISTRICT, BAGMATI PROVINCE, NEPAL
1. Exterior wide shot: Palais des Nations, Flag Alley.
2. Medium reverse shot: Speakers at the podium of the press conference; speaker on screens; journalists in the Press room.
3. SOUNDBITE (English) – Lila Pieters Yahia, UN Resident Coordinator in Nepal: “As of today, unfortunately, 464 people have lost their lives. There are still 977 people which are missing, of which 517 are believed to be international.”
4. Wide shot: Speaker at the podium of the press conference.
5. SOUNDBITE (English) – Kamal Kishore, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for Disaster Risk Reduction, Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR): “In living memory, we haven't seen a mountain hazard event like this for a very, very long time. The impact on lives, livelihoods, buildings, infrastructure, bridges, hydroelectric projects, power generation, it's really immense. And I think we are still coming to grips with the extent of the damage.”
6. Medium reverse shot: Speaker at the podium of the press conference; speaker on screens; journalists in the Press room.
7. SOUNDBITE (English) – Lila Pieters Yahia, UN Resident Coordinator in Nepal: “Search and rescue is ongoing. And we were, we also witnessed people had just been rescued as we were walking and visiting the site, one of the sites which has been severely damaged. We saw a whole truck full of people, an entire family who had just been rescued and I can tell you it was very, very emotional.”
8. Medium shot: Journalists in the Press room.
9. SOUNDBITE (English) – Lila Pieters Yahia, UN Resident Coordinator in Nepal: “As we were there, actually, we could not stay as long as we had expected. We had to rush because we received an alert that some additional floods might be coming.”
10. Wide shot: Journalists in the Press room; speaker on screens.
11. SOUNDBITE (English) – Lila Pieters Yahia, UN Resident Coordinator in Nepal: “What we saw this morning, while we were there, once the alarm went off, that we saw everybody was following the order and seeking refuge. We also saw trucks loading people, particularly people who were living by the riverbank and were brought up to safety. So, there is a system and what we could observe is the system is working.”
12. Medium reverse shot: Speakers at the podium of the press conference.
13. SOUNDBITE (English) – David Fisher, Head of Delegation for Nepal, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC): “We believe that at least 93,000 people have been affected and are in great need. We're, of course, very, very concerned about the secondary flood.”
14. Wide shot: Journalists in the Press room; speaker on screens.
15. SOUNDBITE (English) – Tarik Jašarević, spokesperson, World Health Organization (WHO): “As always, when we have disaster of this scale and we have displacement, overcrowding, and we may have disruption of water, sanitation and health services, and that can increase the risk of infectious diseases.”
16. Medium shot: Journalists in the Press room.
17. Kamal Kishore, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for Disaster Risk Reduction, Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR): “It has again highlighted how fragile mountain ecosystems are and how challenging it is to set up early warning systems in mountain environments where you are not predicting one hazard, but you're predicting a range of cascading hazards. So there will be a lot of learning in times to come. But for now, it's really the time for solidarity with people of Nepal.”
18. WHO NEPAL BROLL: 27 AUGUST 2026, NUWAKOT DISTRICT, BAGMATI PROVINCE, NEPAL - CREDIT WHO NEPAL ON SCREEN – Various shots of flooding aftermath and destruction.
19. UNICEF BROLL: 27 AUGUST 2026, NUWAKOT DISTRICT, BAGMATI PROVINCE, NEPAL - CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN - Aerial shot, damaged buildings along river edge; Various shots, collapsed buildings; community members surveying damage; damaged buildings and collapsed bridge.
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