Hospitals and morgues in Kathmandu are struggling to handle hundreds of unidentified bodies from floods that struck Nepal a week ago, with authorities beginning to take DNA samples from relatives of the missing.
Hospitals and morgues in Kathmandu are struggling to cope with the influx of bodies from devastating floods that struck Nepal a week ago. Hundreds of the dead remain unidentified as authorities work to process the deceased.
Officials have begun taking DNA samples from relatives of people reported missing in the floods. The effort aims to help identify victims as the prospect of finding additional survivors from the disaster diminishes.
Save the Children is distributing food, water, diapers and toothbrushes in Nepal's Nuwakot district, where water sources have been contaminated.
Nepal plans to rebuild an early-warning system for landslides on its border with China, installing seismic sensors and cameras after a glacial flood killed more than 1,000 people.