UPDATE, OCTOBER 11: Later reports identify five missing people and 49 rescues, expanding the earlier account of evacuations. This article retains its original publication time and address.

KATHMANDU — Five people are missing after flooding along Nepal’s Budhi Gandaki River on Sunday, according to the country’s disaster authority. The army says it has rescued 49 people.

Reuters reports that the missing group comprises two women and three men. A foreign national was among those rescued; their nationality was not disclosed.

Evacuations continue

The Associated Press reports that authorities remain on alert through Sunday following a landslide blockage and subsequent breach. The agency’s account describes roughly three dozen homes swept away, four bridges damaged or destroyed, and damage to a hydropower construction site.

Those figures expand the early account. They remain provisional as rescue teams work through affected communities.

Sources: Reuters, October 11; full Reuters report republished by GMA News, October 11; The Associated Press, October 11.

Lead image: flag of Nepal from Wikimedia Commons; public domain and not a photograph of the flood.