Photos: Nepal begins burying flood victims in mass graves

Published On 1 Sep 20261 Sep 2026.

Key points

• Police using a drone to search for survivors remarked on Tuesday they had identified 24 bodies in a single house in Nuwakot district.
• Prime Minister Balendra Shah has described the catastrophe as "unimaginable and heartbreaking".
• Nepal has begun burying the victims of the devastating flood that hit the mountainous country last week in mass graves after taking DNA samples.
• Nepal has begun burying victims of last week's devastating flood in mass graves after taking DNA samples.
• The deadly wave was triggered by a high-altitude glacial collapse, and then carved a path of destruction through the country.

After the massive surge of freezing water, rocks and debris that tore down Himalayan valleys on August 26, nepalese authorities remarked on Tuesday that 1, 003 bodies had been recovered, with 3, 916 residents still listed as missing.

In practice, the deadly wave was triggered by a high-altitude glacial collapse, and then carved a path of destruction through the country.

As authorities bury unidentified bodies after DNA sampling since there are too numerous to store or identify individually, at a mass burial ground in Chitwan district, the Hindu rituals of death, cremation, prayer and final farewell have been overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster.

Police using a drone to search for survivors remarked on Tuesday they had identified 24 bodies in a single house in Nuwakot district. At least 17 bodies have been recovered from rivers far downstream in India.

For now, photos: Nepal begins burying flood victims in mass graves remains the part of the story worth watching, and further updates are likely as more details are confirmed.