Relatives console Muna Khadka, center, who lost her son Aayush Khadka in flash floods, at a cremation ground in Chitwan, Nepal, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) CORRECTION: Corrects to clarify that this was at a separate cremation ground and not during a mass burial. Also corrects the second name of Aayush to Khadka instead of Khada.
Nepalese army soldiers look for bodies of flash flood victims amid a rescue operation from a river in Chitwan, Nepal, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Nepalese army soldiers wait after recovering bodies of flash flood victims from a river in Chitwan, Nepal, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Nepal's paramilitary force personnel prepare the bodies of flash flood victims for burial at a mass burial site in Chitwan, Nepal, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Relatives console Muna Khadka, center, who lost her son Aayush Khadka in flash floods, at a cremation ground in Chitwan, Nepal, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) CORRECTION: Corrects to clarify that this was at a separate cremation ground and not during a mass burial. Also corrects the second name of Aayush to Khadka instead of Khada.
Onlookers watch as volunteers and rescuers carry the body of a flash flood victim for mass burial in Chitwan, Nepal, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Krishna Khadka, father of Aayush Khadka, who was killed in flash floods breaks down during his son's cremation, in Chitwan, Nepal, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) CORRECTION: Corrects the second name of Aayush to Khadka instead of Khada.
Nepal's paramilitary force personnel carry the body of a flash flood victim for burial at a mass burial site in Chitwan, Nepal, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Nepal's paramilitary force personnel carry the body of a flash flood victim for burial at a mass burial site in Chitwan, Nepal, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Relatives console Muna Khadka, center, who lost her son Aayush Khadka in flash floods, at a cremation ground in Chitwan, Nepal, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) CORRECTION: Corrects to clarify that this was at a separate cremation ground and not during a mass burial. Also corrects the second name of Aayush to Khadka instead of Khada.
Muna Khadka, center, mother of Aayush Khadka, who was killed in flash floods, breaks down during her son's cremation in Chitwan, Nepal, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) CORRECTION: Corrects the second name of Aayush to Khadka instead of Khada.
Relatives and friends cremate Aayush Khadka who was killed in flash floods, in Chitwan, Nepal, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) CORRECTION: Corrects the second name of Aayush to Khadka instead of Khada.
Relatives and friends cremate Aayush Khadka, who was killed in flash floods, in Chitwan, Nepal, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) CORRECTION: Corrects the second name of Aayush to Khadka instead of Khada.
Numbered identification tags placed inside pots mark the graves of flash flood victims at a mass burial site in Chitwan, Nepal, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
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1:47 AM on Tuesday, September 1
By DAR YASIN
CHITWAN, Nepal (AP) — Muna Khadka knows her 21-year-old son is dead, but she didn't get a chance to see him before his body was committed to its cremation shroud.
Knowing his fate after the catastrophic floods that killed over 1,000 people in Nepal and China brings some comfort, but all she could do was touch his shroud for a second to say goodbye before his cremation on Monday.
At a mass burial ground in Nepal's Chitwan district, the Hindu rituals of death — cremation, prayer, the final farewell — are being lost to the scale of the disaster as overwhelmed authorities are burying unidentified bodies because there are too many to keep or identify individually.
Twelve more bodies have been fished out of the Narayani River in Chitwan, downriver from the areas hit by floods, in the past day, and the deaths continue to mount.
Another body arrives. Another gurney. Another journey across the sodden earth. Officials carry the gurneys, the stark white of their protective suits jarring against Chitwan’s lush green, still alive as the dead keep arriving.
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