As Nepal’s morgues fill, Parkrit hopes her DNA can be used to find her mother
A week on from the flash flooding disaster, authorities are urging relatives of the thousands of missing and dead to provide blood samples An army official calls out a name.
A young woman stands, two pieces of identification in her hands.
She fills out a form, takes another and moves to the back of the hospital to give a vial of blood.
With so many people killed by Nepal’s floods , and hundreds of bodies being buried because the morgues are full, there is now a push to identify victims through DNA.
The woman, Prakrit Gurung, 19, is hoping her DNA will be linked to her mother’s body.
Her father’s has been found – her brother recognised his picture on a wall outside the hospital.
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