Nepal is observing a national day of mourning for more than 1,300 people killed in last month’s devastating floods, with government offices and diplomatic missions flying the national flag at half-mast.

The mourning comes 13 days after a massive wall of mud and rock, triggered by a glacier collapse, surged into a river along Nepal’s border with China’s Tibet region on August 26. The disaster killed at least 1,380 people, while more than 5,500 remain missing.

No official ceremonies have been planned as rescue and search operations continue in the worst-hit areas. According to Al Jazeera, search teams are still working to locate survivors and recover victims as authorities struggle with limited resources.

In recent days, rescuers have pulled four people alive from the debris, including a Chinese national rescued from a hydropower tunnel and three others from separate locations.

President Ram Chandra Paudel is visiting flood-affected areas on Monday to assess the damage as Nepal continues its search for the missing and grapples with the scale of the disaster.

BOB Post