Mass burials in Nepal as death toll from flash floods exceeds 1,000
A mother mourned her 21-year-old son who died in the flash floods in Nepal and was cremated Monday. Meanwhile in south-central Nepal’s Chitwan district, authorities said they were carrying out temporary burials of unidentified bodies in trenches dug in a forested area as concerns for health risks mounts. (AP Video: Dar Yasin) Residents in Nepal’s Nuwakot district were returning to assess the damage to their homes on Wednesday after catastrophic flooding on the border with Nepal and China. As police in Kathmandu buried dozens of bodies in multiple trenches, Nepal’s disaster agency said that 1,003 deaths had been counted there, with 3,916 people missing, including 583 foreign nationals. In its latest update, China reported 16 deaths and 546 missing, including 261 foreigners. (AP Video by Shonal Ganguly, Rajesh Kumar Singh and Victoria Milko) Nepal police personnel prepare the bodies of flash flood victims for a mass burial in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Sept. The scale of the Aug.
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1, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescue teams with search dogs continued to look through mud, rocks and debris on the Nepal -China border Tuesday for thousands of people missing a week after the catastrophic flash floods that tore through Himalayan communities and left more than 1,000 dead.
