Soldier Missing in Flood Cremated with Kush Effigy

Rautahat. A soldier from Rautahat, who has been missing for more than a month in the devastating flood in the Bhote Koshi River, is about to be cremated according to Hindu tradition by making a body of Kush.

Abhishek Gupta, 22, son of Baidyanath Sah Kanu of Saugaiya, Ward No. 7 of Molaipur Municipality, Rautahat, was working as a soldier at the Shri Sherganj Office, Rasuwa of the Nepali Army.