New Delhi, Sept 2 (NVI) With more bodies being recovered, the death toll from Nepal’s devastating flash floods has increased to 1,127 while massive efforts continue to trace thousands of people who remain missing since the August 26 deluge.
Teams of Indian Army personnel and forensics specialists are working shoulder to shoulder with their Nepalese counterparts in the search and rescue operations.
India also airlifted today the 5th consignment of material required in the post-flood operations in Nepal.
Nepal Prime Minister Balendra today hailed India and China for extending help in the wake of the devastating floods.
According to the Nepal Police, 348 more dead bodies were recovered from Chitwan, 217 from Nawalparasi East, 190 from Nawalparasi West and 155 from Nuwakot.
Similarly, 66 bodies were recovered from Gorkha, 59 from Dhading, 45 from Rasuwa, and 38 from Tanahu.
Police said postmortem and legal identification procedures had been completed for 1,113 bodies, while 95 had been handed over to relatives.
Details of 911 unidentified bodies have been uploaded to the Nepal Police website to help families identify missing relatives.
So far, security forces have rescued 6,541 people from the affected areas while search operations continued for 4,858 missing people, the police said.
Authorities have deployed 7,912 police personnel to flood-hit areas for search and rescue operations, relief distribution and the management of recovered bodies.
Police teams are also moving families from high-risk areas to safer locations, clearing roads blocked by debris and coordinating search, rescue and relief operations with local authorities and residents.
Flash floods, triggered by a collapse or avalanche of ice and rock near the Nepal-Tibet border, devastated towns and villages in northern and central Nepal on August 26.
