Displaced by the Bhotekoshi flood, 111 families are spending the festival in a Kathmandu monastery, grieving loved ones and wondering when they can return home.

The Armed Police Force has deployed 28,126 personnel and kept another 4,500 on standby for Dashain, Tihar, Chhath and other festivals.

More than 250 houses and other structures were swept away in the border settlement, leaving just six damaged houses standing and hundreds of people unaccounted for.

Samba, a Labrador trained to detect the scent of human remains, has helped rescuers locate around 20 bodies beneath mud and debris since the floods hit Rasuwa.

With the entire settlement at the bordering town swept away by last week’s devastating floods, there was nothing that separated the Nepali territory from that of China in Rasuwagadhi.

A Rawal Commission official recalls how field teams surveyed Kathmandu’s public land and documented large-scale irregularities.