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Nepal Flood Survivors Return to Ruins to Salvage Memories

Survivors say homes were submerged in minutes as rescuers and local officials help families recover documents, jewelry and other belongings from the mud.

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Days after a wall of water and debris ripped through Nepal, Shanti Lamichhane sat on a fruit crate in the dirt where her village once stood, staring at what remained of her home.

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"I came to recover what I could," she says. "But it's not just this. All my memories are there." As so many others in this remote region of the Himalayas, the locality of Dhunge, on the border of China, was completely swallowed up Wednesday morning by the wave which, according to the last reports, made 750 dead and 3,044 disappeared in the two neighbouring countries. Experts and scientists explain that the disaster was caused by the collapse of …

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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Nepal flood survivors return to ruins to salvage memories

The village of Dhunge, once home to roughly 150 families, now lies in ruins, reduced to a swampy expanse with an ominous rotting stench — one of dozens of settlements obliterated by the Himalayan floods.

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India Today broke the news in Noida, India on Saturday, August 29, 2026.
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