Nepal flood: 10 bodies recovered from Gandak river in Uttar Pradesh

With this, the number of bodies recovered from the Gandak river system in Kushinagar and Maharajganj districts has risen to 13 over the past three days, including seven in Kushinagar and six in Maharajganj.

Suspected to have been swept downstream from the neighbouring country, the bodies prompted authorities to launch efforts to establish the identities of the deceased.

Confirming this, additional district magistrate of Kushinagar, Vaibhav Mishra said they were spotted between Thokar numbers 2 and 4 on Saturday morning. National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel subsequently retrieved the bodies, which have been kept for identification. District authorities have also informed their counterparts in Nepal about the recoveries.