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) Rescuers were trying to find trapped workers in at least a dozen hydroelectric plant sites Monday after catastrophic flooding in Nepal and Tibet killed at least 900 people and left more than 4,700 missing. A Nepal flag lies on a muddy track near the banks of the Trishuli river in Dhading District, Nepal, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) Nepal Army soldiers carry a body of a worker recovered from the site of a hydropower project in Upper Trishuli, Nepal, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Kaslai Dine) Displaced girls sit at a school converted into a temporary shelter for displaced residents in residents in Bidur, in Nepal’s Nuwakot district, Tuesday, Sept.

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