BAGLUNG: With search efforts failing to locate a missing engineer couple and their two children for 16 days following the Bhotekoshi flood, the family performed their final rites on Thursday.
Rajesh Sharma Poudel, 36, and Pramila Pathak, 35, of Tityang, Baglung Municipality-9, were working at the Trishuli-3B Hydropower Project when they went missing along with their four-year-old son, Aditya, and two-year-old daughter, Aditi. The family performed their final rites after the four remained unaccounted for 16 days at Aryaghat, Pashupatinath in Kathmandu.
According to Bishnu Sharma, a relative of the missing couple, the family cremated ‘kush’ (a sacred grass used in Hindu religious rituals) in accordance with Hindu tradition in the absence of their bodies. Rajesh Poudel was the only son of the family, Sharma said.
Meanwhile, 16 people remain missing following the disaster, according to the District Police Office. They include nine people from Tamankhola Rural Municipality who were working at a Trishuli hydropower project, two from Dhorpatan Municipality, one from Galkot Municipality, and four from Baglung Municipality who were working at the Trishuli-3B Hydropower Project.
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