Nepal-Tibet disaster: death toll exceeds 800 amid warnings of new flash floods – as it happened

Searches continue as mass burials of unidentified victims begin days after floods and landslides hit Nepal-Tibet border

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Nepal’s Chitwan district has become the site of mass burials for hundreds of unidentified victims whose bodies were swept away by the devastating flash floods on Wednesday.

Authorities have dug ⁠hundreds of graves in the district’s Devghat forest, with the forest trials serving as a temporary burial ground for bodies too badly decomposed to be identified.

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