Nepal hospital wall becomes memorial for flood victims
Hundreds flock to Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan Hospital to post photos of loved ones missing after deadly floods.
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AIThe wall of Tribhuvan Hospital in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, has become a massive display covered with hundreds of posters bearing the faces of missing people, following recent floods and landslides that swept across the country.
According to official records, more than 2,000 people are missing, while the disaster has left 788 dead and 2,742 injured in areas near the Chinese border.
The hospital wall is now so crowded with posters that many families have resorted to climbing it in search of space to hang photos of their missing relatives, highlighting the scale of the tragedy facing the nation.
The floods and landslides have caused widespread destruction, and search and rescue operations are still ongoing in the affected regions.