A landscape of loss


1. Members of a search-and-rescue team working to retrieve the body of a person, not pictured, who was trapped inside a tunnel at the Upper Trishuli-3A Hydropower Project after devastating floods and mudslides struck the Bhotekoshi River in Rasuwa. — APF Nepal/Reuters
1. Members of a search-and-rescue team working to retrieve the body of a person, not pictured, who was trapped inside a tunnel at the Upper Trishuli-3A Hydropower Project after devastating floods and mudslides struck the Bhotekoshi River in Rasuwa. — APF Nepal/Reuters

Deadly flash floods and mudslides along Nepal’s Bhotekoshi and Trishuli rivers have claimed lives, damaged homes and infrastructure, displaced communities and left families searching for missing loved ones.

2. Locals waiting to cross the Trishuli River by zip line in the aftermath of flash floods that swept through Trishuli in Nepal’s Nuwakot district. — AFP
2. Locals waiting to cross the Trishuli River by zip line in the aftermath of flash floods that swept through Trishuli in Nepal’s Nuwakot district. — AFP

3. Volunteers distributing packets of biscuits to children displaced by recent flash floods inside a classroom at a school converted into a temporary shelter in Nuwakot district. — AP
3. Volunteers distributing packets of biscuits to children displaced by recent flash floods inside a classroom at a school converted into a temporary shelter in Nuwakot district. — AP

4. A member of the Nepal Army walking past a damaged building near the entrance to a tunnel at the Upper Trishuli-3A Hydropower Station. — Reuters
4. A member of the Nepal Army walking past a damaged building near the entrance to a tunnel at the Upper Trishuli-3A Hydropower Station. — Reuters

5. A worker pulling a cage carrying residents across the Trishuli River on a makeshift zip line from Koloni, after deadly flash floods damaged bridges and temporarily stranded communities. — Reuters
5. A worker pulling a cage carrying residents across the Trishuli River on a makeshift zip line from Koloni, after deadly flash floods damaged bridges and temporarily stranded communities. — Reuters

6. A woman looking at photographs of people missing after the flash floods, displayed outside a temporary relief camp in Trishuli. — AFP
6. A woman looking at photographs of people missing after the flash floods, displayed outside a temporary relief camp in Trishuli. — AFP

7. Forensic personnel inside a temporary relief camp following the deadly flash floods in Trishuli. — AFP
7. Forensic personnel inside a temporary relief camp following the deadly flash floods in Trishuli. — AFP

8. A man gathering his belongings from a home damaged by the flash floods. — Reuters
8. A man gathering his belongings from a home damaged by the flash floods. — Reuters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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