HORRIFYING galleries displaying mutilated bodies are growing day by day in Nepal, as overflowing morgues desperately try to help relatives identify their loved ones.
The Sun’s Senior News Correspondent Amir Razavi is in Kathmandu and described the photos on one wall as “absolutely harrowing”.
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Speaking from outside a morgue in the Nepalese capital to Sam Homewood in The Sun’s new studio in the heart of the newsroom, Amir said: “Some of the pictures of the dead are just images that I’ll never forget seeing.”
Nepalese morgues have been overwhelmed with the number of bodies arriving since the country was struck by devastating flash floods last week.
Behind Amir, hundreds of posters of the missing cover a wall from floor to ceiling.
A second wall, which The Sun has chosen not to share photos of because of its distressing nature, displays the dead.
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Amir explained: “Family members who have lost loved ones or even have loved ones who are missing have come here to try to find them or identify them.”
He described the scene at Kathmandu’s teaching hospital, saying: “We arrived on Friday, and that gallery of people has just got bigger and bigger.”
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“Around the corner, there’s a morgue with about 20 bodies in.
“And outside there, there’s another wall with pictures of the dead.”
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Amir called the wall “absolutely harrowing”, adding that there were images of mutilated tiny bodies posted up for any surviving family to try and recognise.
He said: “There were pictures of kids, really young children, toddlers, probably.”
Many bodies found in the mud have been disfigured beyond all recognition.
Amir said: “Some bodies are so badly injured that you wouldn’t even be able to identify them.
“There was one picture, the body had just been ripped apart. It was just a torso.”
More than 4,000 people remain unaccounted for after flash floods tore through the Trishuli river valley a week ago today, including 48 Brits.
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The floods destroyed entire settlements, engulfing them in mud in mere minutes, leaving many with no chance of escape.
More than 1,000 people have already been confirmed dead in the disaster and the death toll is climbing higher every day.
Nepali authorities have buried many bodies in mass graves as they start to decompose, taking DNA and numbering plots in case relatives are able to identify their loved ones later.
Amir added: “I just can’t imagine being in that situation. To have to try to identify one of your loved ones through those means.
“Their lives are ruined anyway, or being torn apart because they have probably lost their homes, and they still have got to go through this process of trying to find the bodies of their loved ones.”
Amir said hope is “slowly fading” for those searching to find their loved ones alive.
He has been in close contact with Pramod Poudel, 34, a Brit who flew out on Friday to find his wife Sumitra, 25, but who now believes she was swept to her death.
Amir revealed how he trekked part of the way with Pramod, as the Brit desperately tried to reach his home village of Sole to scour the muddy wreckage for his missing wife.
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They had only wed in June. Amir had to turn around after a few hours due to the conditions, but Pramod trekked on for 11 hours.
The village was completely unreachable. His uncle later flew in on a military helicopter but was unable to find their relatives.
Amir said: “When I went back to speak to him yesterday, he was just devastated.
“I think it finally hit him, the gravity of what’s actually happened.
“The locals here and Pramod, who’s originally from here, are such resilient people and they don’t show much emotion.
“He didn’t the first time I spoke to him, I think probably because he still had that hope.
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“But when the realisation hit that they probably have been swept away and he’s never going to see them again, he started breaking down, he was crying.
“It was really, really sad to see.”