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.