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‘The Search Was over’: A Family’s Four-Day Quest for a Son Lost in Nepal’s Floods
Authorities had already recovered a body believed to be Ayush Khadka on the day of the disaster, which has killed at least 939 people and left about 4,000 missing.
By Sahana Bajracharya CHITWAN, Nepal, Sept 1 (Reuters) – For four agonising days after floodwaters tore through Nepal’s Rasuwa district, Ayush Khadka’s family searched desperately for any sign that the 21-year-old civil servant was still alive. The Khadkas were among thousands of families clinging to hope amid the chaos wrought by a glacial collapse that sent an unprecedented deluge of ice, rock, mud and debris crashing through valley towns and…
On August 31, 2026, in Chitwan, Nepal, Ayush Khadka's father, Krishna Khadka (pictured), mourns his son's death in a flash flood outside a morgue. (Prakash Mathema/AFP via Getty Images)