4 days ago
Nepal Flood Survivors Search Hospitals for Missing Relatives
Flash floods in Nepal caused many people to die or disappear.
Families are going to hospitals and other places to look for their missing relatives.
They are putting up photographs and checking lists of names.
Hospitals are showing photographs of recovered bodies to help identify them.
Some people were last seen traveling, working, or loading vehicles near Rasuwa.
Other families lost contact after receiving warnings about the flood.
Rescue workers and government officials are searching for survivors and recovering bodies.
Families say they continue to hope for news, even when they fear their relatives may have died.
Families have posted photographs, posters, and missing-person lists outside Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu.
Hospital officials update photographs of recovered bodies hourly to help relatives identify the deceased.
Four days after the August 26 floods, reports said more than 700 people had died and about 2,500 remained missing.
Relatives have searched hospitals, military facilities, riverbanks, and online police photographs for information about missing people.
Rescue teams and authorities continue evacuations, searches, body identification, and tracing efforts across affected areas.
- Who
- Families of missing people, hospital and forensic staff, rescue teams, police, and government authorities.
- What
- Relatives are searching for missing family members while officials recover bodies, identify the deceased, and conduct rescue operations.
- Where
- Searches have centered on Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, other hospitals, Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Pokhara, and downstream areas including the Narayani and Trishuli rivers.
- When
- The searches took place after the August 26 flash floods; one report described conditions four days later, on August 30.
- Why
- Families want to locate missing relatives, determine whether they survived, and identify recovered bodies.
Key facts
- Reported disaster date
- Flash floods struck on August 26.
- Reported death toll
- The death toll had crossed 700 in one report.
- Reported missing people
- Around 2,500 people were reported missing.
- Kathmandu hospital
- Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital displayed recovered-body photographs and updated them every hour.
- Pokhara identification effort
- More than 1,000 relatives reportedly searched photographs of 102 bodies at Pokhara Academy of Health Sciences.
- Trishuli recovery
- Forty-seven bodies were reportedly recovered from the Trishuli River area in Gorkha; 20 were intact enough for their faces to be visible.
- Identification methods
- Relatives used details including school clothing, jewelry, tattoos, and other distinguishing marks; some cases may require DNA testing.
- Other family gathering
- Families also gathered outside an Army camp in Nuwakot while awaiting information.
Quotes
An unidentified woman searching for missing relatives
A woman seeking relatives missing after the Nepal floods
“We were over there at the Customs Department. I was sleeping in the vehicle. After that, when I went to the market to have tea, the glacier burst occurred. As soon as I heard the warning, I ran uphill. However, many were trapped there; all of them are now missing.”
thehansindia.com
“In Rasuwa, the Nepal government and our rescue team are continuously engaged in safely evacuating people and searching for them, but so far, many people have not been located.”
thehansindia.com
Manju Paudel
A woman searching for her missing brother, Nepali Army soldier Tapendra Jung Kunwar
“Either give us hope that he is alive, or show us his body.”
theprint.in
“As long as they are not found, there is still hope.”
theprint.in
