Nepal begins burials and appeals for support as flooding death toll reaches 797

Foreign Secretary Amrit Bahadur Rai said Nepal needed “more than a thousand” freezer units to store bodies.

Nepal said Sunday it had begun burying some of the hundreds of bodies recovered after devastating floods, after taking DNA samples and marking them so families can later retrieve them. The dead are traditionally cremated on funeral pyres in Hindu-majority Nepal, so the burials are viewed as long-term storage until fami