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Nepal flood survivors find little trace of former lives

Anusa Thapa Magar, 23, displaced by recent flash floods and mudslides, cries while standing next to the sludge that buried her home in Betrawati, Nuwakot district, Nepal. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]

A local day labourer rests outside a flood-damaged house after hanging laundry for an employer in the aftermath of flash floods and mudslides in Devighat, Nuwakot district, Nepal. [Tyrone Siu/Reuters]

Chari Thapa Magar, 54, and Sita Thapa Magar, 45, who were displaced by recent flash floods and mudslides, weep on the sludge that buried their home in Betrawati, Nuwakot district. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]

Nani Kanchi Khatri, 60, stands inside her home where walls were destroyed by floodwaters in Galchhi, Dhading district. Khatri, who lives alone and suffers from asthma, said the flood damaged her only property and swept away medicines she had recently purchased. [Tyrone Siu/Reuters]

An aerial view shows tents at a temporary shelter for people displaced by flash floods and mudslides on a hill in Betrawati, Nuwakot district. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]

Kalpana Thapa Magar, 43, who was displaced by flash floods and mudslides, looks at a part of her damaged house that was swept away by the flood in Betrawati, Nuwakot district. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]

Arjun Prasad Gajurel, 50, and Radhika Gajurel, 50, stand outside their home, where their ground-floor grocery store was buried in mud and a foul odor now fills the air, in Devighat, Nuwakot district. [Tyrone Siu/Reuters]

Corn sprouts from mud-covered storage inside the home of Chiranjivi Pudasaini, 54, alongside a toy doll belonging to his granddaughter, a week after flash floods and mudslides struck Devighat. [Tyrone Siu/Reuters]

Sachita Rai, 19, and her grandfather Man Bahadur Rai, 80, pose outside their home after thick mud flooded the interior of the structure in Ratmate, Nuwakot district. Sachita Rai said she was helping her grandfather on a vegetable farm when floodwaters arrived, and rushed to bring him to safety. [Tyrone Siu/Reuters]

Sita Subedi, 65, sits at the site where her home was completely destroyed following flash floods and a mudslide in Devighat. Subedi, who lived alone after her daughter moved to Japan, said the disaster reduced her house to a few remaining pillars and left her uncertain about where to go next. [Tyrone Siu/Reuters]

Chary Thapa Magar, displaced by flash floods and mudslides, carries a sack of aid supplies at a temporary shelter on a hill in Betrawati. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]

Shanti Dangol, 61, displaced by recent flash floods and mudslides, stands on the sludge that buried her home in Betrawati, Nuwakot district. Shanti described Betrawati as a once-thriving town that catered to pilgrims and trekkers and had grown more prosperous in recent years as families built larger homes, rented rooms and invested in their children's education. [Adnan Abidi /Reuters]