Jumla waits for its young men who left to earn and never returned

Forty-nine people from Jumla’s Patarasi Rural Municipality remain unaccounted for since the Bhotekoshi floods, including 15 young men from Lamri who had gone to Rasuwa for work.

The anguish of Harka Budha of Lamri village in Patarasi Rural Municipality in Jumla grows with each passing day. For more than three weeks, he has waited for news of his only son, Dhruba, who went missing after the Bhotekoshi floods on August 26.