Nepal buries victims of Himalayan flooding as death toll climbs past 900

Nepal began mass burials on Monday for victims of last week's catastrophic flash floods along the Nepal-Tibet border, France 24 reports, as the confirmed death toll climbed past nine hundred. Officials in Nepal and neighboring China are still searching for more than four thousand people who remain missing, including hundreds of workers from hydropower plants across the remote Himalayan region.

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