102 Nagpur pilgrims stranded in Kathmandu after floods return home safely

102 pilgrims from Nagpur, who were stranded in Kathmandu due to flash floods, returned safely to the city on Sunday morning, August 30, 2026, according to officials. The group, comprising 102 pilgrims and four others from Vidarbha, had traveled to Nepal on August 19 to visit the Pashupatinath temple and other pilgrimage sites. They had been in Kathmandu until August 27, a day after the flash floods hit the Nepal-Tibet border.

Out of the 102 pilgrims, four reached Nagpur by flight on Saturday, while the remaining 98 arrived by train at Nagpur Railway Station around 4:30 a.m. on Sunday. The BJP president of Nagpur, Dayashankar Tiwari, was present at the station to receive them. One of the pilgrims, Yogesh Gawande, expressed gratitude to the Maharashtra Chief Minister, Devendra Fadnavis, for his role in their safe return.

Fadnavis had been in constant contact with Sandeep Rana, a member of the Indian Parliament from Nepal, to ensure the arrangements for their safe journey home. Another pilgrim mentioned that they had taken a bus from Kathmandu to Janakpur in Bihar on August 28 and reached Danapur the next day. From Danapur, they traveled to Patna and boarded a train for Nagpur.

Among the pilgrims, one 72-year-old woman, Nirmala Pandey, was hospitalized in Kathmandu after suffering a heart attack. Her son from Nagpur was present in Kathmandu to assist her. On Saturday, four pilgrims from Vidarbha, including three women, returned safely to Nagpur, bringing much relief to their families. The four - Indira Chaudhary (65), Sulochna Khapre of Wardha, Deepak Pande, and Varsha Upadhyay of Hinganghat - had traveled to Nepal to visit the Pashupatinath temple.

The four safely reached Delhi from Kathmandu by flight on August 28 and then came to Nagpur by the Kerala Express on Saturday.