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Families Turn to Symbolic Cremation After Nepal Floods

Published by New York Times World By Mujib Mashal and Binod Ghimire · 4 September 2026 at 13:14
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Families Turn to Symbolic Cremation After Nepal Floods
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Thousands are missing, and some families have lost hope of recovering their bodies. To carry out his sacred duty, a son lights the funeral pyre for a straw effigy of his father.

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