{"id":436362,"date":"2026-09-20T19:09:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T13:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=436362"},"modified":"2026-09-20T19:09:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T13:24:52","slug":"bhote-koshi-floods-dna-samples-collected-in-jumla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/09\/20\/436362.html","title":{"rendered":"Bhote Koshi floods: DNA samples collected in Jumla"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Jumla: <\/strong>DNA samples have been collected from the people in Jumla who relatives have gone missing in the Bhote Koshi flood (Rasuwa) to facilitate their identification. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/DNA-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-435510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/DNA-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/DNA-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/DNA-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/DNA-1536x864.webp 1536w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/DNA-340x191.webp 340w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/DNA-390x220.webp 390w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/DNA.webp 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Salikram Khanal, Police Inspector and Spokesperson for the District Police Office, stated that DNA samples from relatives of 33 individuals from Patarasi Rural Municipality and six from Guthichaur Rural Municipality were collected and sent to the National Forensic Science Laboratory in Lalitpur. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Prem Bahadur Somai, Information Officer at the Public Health Service Office in Jumla, DNA testing has already been conducted on 39 blood samples collected from relatives in Patarasi and Guthichaur, with the assistance of health workers from the Karnali Academy of Health Sciences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted that samples from the remaining individuals were collected in Kathmandu. The bodies will be handed over to the families after the DNA profiles are generated and matched. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data from the District Administration Office indicates that while 93 people from the district went missing in the flood, 30 have since been located. The administration reports that the remaining 63 individuals remain missing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNA testing has already been conducted on 39 blood samples collected from relatives in Patarasi and Guthichaur, with the assistance of health workers from the Karnali Academy of Health Sciences. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":435510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-436362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436363,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436362\/revisions\/436363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436362"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=436362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}