FRANCE 24 in Nepal: In Bharatpur, authorities begin burying unidentified bodies

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: FRANCE 24 in Nepal: In Bharatpur, authorities begin burying unidentified bodies © France 24 02:02 Issued on: 02/09/2026 - 12:28 In Nepal, the death toll continues to rise. Every day, new bodies are recovered, but many remain unidentifiable. Several days after the devastating floods, some are already in an advanced state of decomposition. Faced with the influx of remains, authorities have begun burying them without formal identification, primarily to limit health risks and the strong odours. FRANCE 24's special correspondents traveled to Bharatpur, in southern Nepal, to one of these burial sites. Keywords for this article On the ground Asia / Pacific