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3 stories from Middle East Affairs.
Families hold symbolic funerals for flood victims still missing
Nepalese families are performing cremation ceremonies for relatives presumed dead in an August 26 flash flood, as authorities work to identify recovered bodies.
Death toll from Himalayan glacial floods tops 1,000
Death toll from glacial floods in the Himalayan mountains has exceeded 1,000 as rescue teams search for thousands still missing, including workers believed trapped in tunnels.
Nepal's morgues overwhelmed as flood death toll identification lags
Hospitals and morgues in Kathmandu are struggling to handle hundreds of unidentified bodies from floods that struck Nepal a week ago, with authorities beginning to take DNA samples from relatives of the missing.
