# Authorities in Nepal have started the process of burying hundreds of unidentified victims following last week’s catastrophic flash floods. The death toll from the disaster on the Nepal-Tibet border currently stands at 955, with over four-thousand people still missing. Nepal’s scenic Chitwan district now serves as a temporary burial ground for bodies too badly decomposed to be identified. Authorities say the concern is the risk to public health posed by the rapid decomposition of the bodies. A detailed burial-record system has been set up to aid future DNA tracking.
Nepal begins mass burials of unidentified flood victims