More than 4,200 unaccounted for and 1,200 dead after glacier collapse; some families cremate straw effigies

Every day, visitors post pictures of their loved ones outside a hospital in Kathmandu, hoping someone will recognise the face and say they are alive.

As nearly 4,000 people remain missing after Nepal’s deadly flash floods, families hold symbolic funerals to free the souls of loved ones they cannot find.

More than 4,200 missing after catastrophic flood