Nepal Flood Survivors Return to Search Through Destroyed Homes
Severe flooding across Nepal has left communities devastated, destroying homes and claiming lives. Survivors are now returning to the affected areas to mourn their loved ones and salvage what remains of their possessions.
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‘The flood took everything I have’: survivors grieve for relatives and homes swept away in Nepal
Army helicopters ferry survivors from inaccessible areas to a camp at a barracks in Bidur The three women sat together in the army tent and wept. They cried out for their sons, their husbands, their homes. As flash floods coursed through the Himalayan mountains on Wednesday morning, a monstrous black wave took everything from them. As a melting glacier high up in the Himalayas between Tibet and Nepal splintered and crashed into the valley below, it set off a deadly cascade of water, mud and d...
By Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Gaurav Pokharel in Bidur. Photographs and video by Ahmer Khan
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