Inside Nepal’s mortuaries: The struggle to identify dead bodies | DW News
The bodies of people swept away by floods in Nepal are turning up far downstream, creating a growing challenge for authorities trying to store and identify them. Mortuaries in Nuwakot and Dhading districts are running out of space, with some bodies being transferred to neighboring districts. DW correspondent Adil Bhat reports from one mortuary where around 60 bodies have been brought in and where authorities are struggling to identify them.
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00:00 Nepal begins mass burials of unidentified flood victims
00:36 Families search hospitals and morgues for missing loved ones
01:08 Mortuary worker on handling victims and supporting families
01:42 Forensic official on post-mortems and DNA identification
02:08 Challenges for investigators
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