Some bodies lay half-buried in hardened silt and had to be chiselled out with spades and shovels
Rescuers improvised a path through the mud, entered the building and found 23 more bodies – 12 women, 11 men and a young girl.
The building belonged to Bachuram Awasthi, though it remained unclear if he was among the dead, and housed the Uttargaya Mini Mart – a convenience store – on its ground floor, police said. TRISHULI BAZAAR (NEPAL): A police drone scanning flood-buried buildings in Betrawati village in Nuwakot district near the Rasuwa border spotted what appeared to be a single body inside a three-storey structure surrounded by deep, marsh-like silt. Police had not established who they were or why so many people had ended up inside the same building. Getting inside took multiple attempts. Floodwater had deposited such deep sludge and liquid concrete around the building that rescuers could not approach it on foot. After the drone reconnaissance, police collected corrugated metal sheets, pieces of timber and ropes from nearby wreckage and laid them across the mud to create a makeshift route. Two police teams then reached the building. Some bodies lay half-buried in hardened silt and had to be chiselled out with spades and shovels. Rescuers searched the ground floor and the two floors above it, though parts of the three-storey premises remained inaccessible.