{"id":297,"date":"2026-09-04T02:02:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/nepal-flood-victims-may-remain-unidentified-forensic-expert-warns\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T02:02:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:02:42","slug":"nepal-flood-victims-may-remain-unidentified-forensic-expert-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/nepal-flood-victims-may-remain-unidentified-forensic-expert-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal flood victims may remain unidentified, forensic expert warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the bodies recovered from the Nepal-Tibet flood disaster may never be located, and those found might remain unidentified, according to a leading forensic scientist.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Richard Bassed, who heads the forensic medicine department at Melbourne&#8217;s Monash University, highlighted the severe difficulties involved in identifying victims of the catastrophic flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Bassed has extensive experience in mass fatality incidents, having spent three months in Thailand assisting with identification efforts following the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. He also played a key role in identifying victims of Victoria\u2019s Black Saturday bushfires in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the Nepal-Tibet disaster, Bassed noted the unsettling nature of the event. &#8216;The randomness of this massive flood&#8230; That gets to you,&#8217; he said, emphasizing the unique challenges posed by the scale and distribution of the tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Richard Bassed says some bodies from Nepal-Tibet floods may never be found or identified due to the disaster&#8217;s extreme conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[788,297,787,296,786,10],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-disaster-identification","tag-floods","tag-forensic-science","tag-nepal","tag-tibet","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}