Nepal warns of possible fresh flooding as communities grapple with devastation

Nepal warns of possible fresh flooding as communities grapple with devastation VICTORIA MILKO AND NIRANJAN SHRESTHA DHADING, NEPAL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PUBLISHED 1 HOUR AGO Open this photo in gallery: A resident looks at the swollen Trishuli river in Galchhi, Dhading District, Nepal, on Sunday. NIRANJAN SHRESTHA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COMMENTS SHARE SAVE FOR LATER Authorities in Nepal warned of possible fresh flooding on Sunday and urged residents in flood-affected districts to remain on high alert after water levels rose in the Bhotekoshi River. Flood warning notices were sent to people’s phones early Sunday as rescue crews worked to clear a major highway connecting Kathmandu to one of the areas worst hit by Wednesday’s catastrophic floods, which killed at least 800 people and left more than 3,000 missing in Nepal and Tibet. In Dhading, one of the worst-hit regions in Nepal, some residents began returning to ruined homes to see what can be salvaged. 1/8 Residents view the widened channel of the Trishuli River on Friday. EZRA ACAYAN/GETTY IMAGES A child is treated in a hospital after her home was flooded in Nuwakot, Nepal. RITESH SHUKLA/GETTY IMAGES A woman carries belongings she recovered from her destroyed home following flash floods in Nepal. EZRA ACAYAN/GETTY IMAGES Residents salvage belongings from their destroyed home in Devighat, Nepal. EZRA ACAYAN/GETTY IMAGES An woman mourns at a relief camp inside a hospital. RITESH SHUKLA/GETTY IMAGES Soldiers search for bodies as rescue operations shift into search and retrieval. EZRA ACAYAN/GETTY IMAGES A woman and child use a smartphone inside a relief camp for flash flood victims. ARUN SANKAR / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Rescue personnel looks on at the site of damaged buildings. MANAN VATSYAYANA / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Residents sat in homes with walls washed away by the floods, shovelling sludgelike mud and rubble off balconies or window frames. Others scanned the ground for items they could pick out of the mud and rinse off. One man had returned for his chickens, which he found alive. He tied them up and put them in the cabin of his truck. “Everything is finished. Nothing is left. Not even our home,” Sharmila Tamang, a Dhading resident who was trying to salvage items from her home, told The Associated Press. At a key power plant that was severely damaged by the floods, workers started inspecting the facilities Sunday to survey the destruction. The plant serves over 20,000 people across four…