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The Economic Times
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Nepal floods: DNA testing offers last hope to families searching for missing loved ones

Kathmandu: When Amrit Diyali saw a human hand washed downstream by floodwaters, he was struck by how closely it resembled his younger brother Raj Kumar's, who has been missing along with his wife and four-year-old son since the devastating floods hit Nepal.

"I found a hand that looks exactly like uncle's," Amrit's nephew Avinash told him after sending him a photograph of the severed hand, according to The Kathmandu Post.

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