Four days of searching in Nepal floods end with heartbreak as son identified and cremated
Four agonising days after flash floods and a mudslide rifled Nepal’s Rasuwa district, 21‑year‑old Ayush Khadka, a civil servant, remained missing as his family hunted across districts, cross‑checking photographs at a recovery center and weighing a recovered body’s resemblance. Authorities had already identified a body as Ayush’s, and on August 30 his death was confirmed; the next morning about 35 relatives cremated him in Chitwan. The disaster killed at least 939 people and left around 4,000 missing, underscoring the chaos and heartbreak faced by families in the floods’ wake.