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Funerals in Nepal for missing, a week after deadly floods

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One week after deadly flash floods swept through the Himalayan region of Nepal, families are holding symbolic funeral ceremonies to liberate the souls of their missing loved ones whose villages and homes were destroyed. Concurrently, mass burials have commenced, with Nepalese police interring flood victims in the Gokarna forest of Kathmandu.

Emergency response teams have recovered more than 1,000 bodies following the disaster. Operations and recovery efforts remain critical as nearly 4,500 people are still reported missing.

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Free Malaysia Today (MY) Focuses heavily on the mass burials conducted by police.
Iraqi News (Baghdad, Iraq) (IQ) Highlights the massive scale of casualties and missing persons.
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