Devastation in Nepalese cities after deadly flood that killed more than 600 people Devastation in Nepali cities after deadly flood that killed more than 600 people 0:56 A team of police dogs was combing half-buried houses in the devastated town of Devighat on Saturday, looking for bodies. Above gates littered with silt and debris, ornate signs bear the name of the inhabitants’ family or Hindu blessings, signs of the domesticity ruined when the nearby Trishuli River burst its banks in Nepal’s worst natural disaster in years. A member of the search team plunged a stick into the mud up to feet deep to look for any sign of a body below. Nearby, the rotting carcass of a buffalo lay beside the road, its stench filling the air. The capital Kathmandu’s 14-member police team and its two dogs have been working from dawn to dusk for the past four days. “It breaks my heart,” Krishna, one of the police officers, who did not want to give his last name, told CNN. “We have been coming here for three or four days now. It breaks my heart that we couldn’t find people. It makes me sad that our Nepalese people have to suffer like this.” The last body that the police removed was that of a young man this morning. He was wearing blue jeans, Krishna said, but there was little else to identify him. “His body had already decomposed,” Krishna said. Counting the dead and missing is laborious, said police officer Krishna. Teams like theirs, deployed from other parts of the country, rely on the few locals still here for information about who is still missing and where they were last seen. A police officer and a dog climbed through the rubble of what was once a small store to check the owner’s registration certificate posted on the wall. A man dug with a shovel trying to reach the ground floor to begin the long task of seeing if there was anything that could be saved. Others passed by carrying their belongings; a microwave, a set of chairs and pots.
