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Flags lowered as Nepal mourns 1,300 flood victims
AP News • • world
Key Points:
- Nepal observed a 13th-day mourning period on Monday for victims of the August 26 floods, which killed over 1,300 people in Nepal and Tibet and left around 5,000 missing, including foreigners.
- Families performed symbolic funerals in accordance with Hindu traditions, seeking spiritual closure despite many bodies remaining unrecovered.
- The government declared an official day of mourning, lowering flags at government offices, while search efforts for the missing continued.
- Relatives of missing hydropower plant workers protested in Kathmandu, demanding faster and more effective rescue operations, citing delays and insufficient equipment deployment.
- Rescue teams from India, China, South Korea, and the U.S. are assisting in searches at 12 hydropower projects, where approximately 900 workers remain missing, many believed trapped in tunnels.
