Summary Nepal is marking one grim month since a wall of ice, rock and mud tore through the Langtang valley on August 26. The country’s disaster authority now says 1,451 bodies have been pulled from the wreckage, while more than 5,700 people are still unaccounted for. The scale of loss keeps growing even as rescue teams shift from search-and-rescue to slower, grimmer recovery work. Background The disaster began just before 9 am local time on August 26, when a massive section of Nepal’s Langtang Lirung mountain broke away from an…
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