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Nearly 1,000 dead, thousands missing in Nepal–China border floods
A relative of Prabita Roila, 32, who lost her life following deadly flash floods and a mudslide, lights her funeral pyre at the Suryamati River in Trishuli, Nuwakot district, Nepal. [Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters]
Nearly 1,000 dead, thousands missing in Nepal–China border floods
Members of the Nepal Army stand near retrieved bodies that were washed away following flash floods and a mudslide in the Narayani River, Chitwan, Nepal. [Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]
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Sunmaya Tamang waits outside an army camp for the news of her missing relatives in Nepal's Nuwakot district. [Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP]
Nearly 1,000 dead, thousands missing in Nepal–China border floods
People salvage belongings following flash floods that swept through Devighat in Nepal's Nuwakot district. [Arun Sankar/AFP]
Nearly 1,000 dead, thousands missing in Nepal–China border floods
Nepal's paramilitary force personnel carry the body of a flash flood victim for burial at a mass burial site in Chitwan, Nepal. [Dar Yasin/AP]
Nearly 1,000 dead, thousands missing in Nepal–China border floods
Muna Khadka, center, mother of Aayush Khada, who was killed in flash floods, breaks down during her son's cremation in Chitwan, Nepal. [Dar Yasin/AP]
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Nepal's paramilitary forces arrange numbered identification tags in pots to mark the graves of flash flood victims at a mass burial site in Chitwan. [Dar Yasin/AP]
Distraught families, desperate for news of missing relatives, are watching images of bodies on screens at community centres in a bid to identify the dead.
A boy climbs on a ledge to paste photographs of missing persons in the aftermath of flash floods at the Tribhuvan University Teaching hospital in Kathmandu as distraught families search for information on their missing relatives. [Manan Vatsyayana/AFP]
Nearly 1,000 dead, thousands missing in Nepal–China border floods
Kathmandu has appealed for international support, saying Nepal needed "more than a thousand" freezer units to store bodies. [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]
Nearly 1,000 dead, thousands missing in Nepal–China border floods
With mortuaries overflowing with the dead, Nepal has begun burying some of the hundreds of bodies recovered after taking DNA samples so families can later retrieve them. [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]
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