Video clips from the Budhi Gandaki basin show water lashing through Salleri Bazaar, tearing roofs and swallowing entire streets.
The surge demolished six bridges—motorable Arughat, suspension Tripurasundari, Soti‑Manbu, and a Bailey span across Dharche—cutting off travel for the four wards it served.
Preliminary counts list 35 houses lost in Painyu and Bagar Ward 3 of Chumnubri Rural Municipality, while the hydropower project in the district sustained substantial damage.
Prime Minister Balendra Shah, after receiving the first dispatch, mobilised the Nepali Army via air and ground, and a rapid‑response team from Kathmandu lifted by helicopter.
Assistant chief district officer Netra Prasad Sharma said rescue teams are searching for the 10 missing, and the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority has called for residents to relocate to safer zones.
Officials suspect a blocked tributary or a landslide triggered the sudden rise, but investigations are ongoing. The tragedy follows August’s Bhotekoshi‑Trishuli deluge that claimed 1,455 lives and left 5,285 missing.