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- Families in Nepal's flood-hit Nuwakot and Rasuwa districts are performing symbolic cremations using effigies made of kusha, a sacred grass, because they cannot recover the bodies of missing relatives.
- After searching hospitals, morgues, riverbanks and recovery lists, relatives held traditional Hindu last rites at cremation sites along the Trishuli river and, in large numbers, at Pashupati Aryaghat in Kathmandu, where more than 100 effigies were cremated in one day.
- Hindu scriptures permit such rites when a body cannot be found and there is clear evidence a person was swept away, according to a Sanskrit university professor.
- The ceremonies allow grieving families to begin mourning and perform rituals they believe liberate the souls of the dead.
What to watch next
- Whether recovery teams locate more bodies of the missing in Nuwakot and Rasuwa
- The final confirmed death and missing toll from the floods
- Relief and rehabilitation efforts for survivors in the worst-hit districts
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