Twelve more bodies were pulled from the Narayani River in Chitwan over the past day, adding to a flood disaster that has killed more than 1,000 people across Nepal and China.
Chitwan authorities are burying unidentified victims in unmarked graves because the number of bodies has overwhelmed efforts to store, identify and return them individually.
Families who do identify relatives are still facing curtailed Hindu funeral rites; one mother in Chitwan could only touch her 21-year-old son's shroud briefly before cremation.
The latest recoveries extend a crisis that began with a Himalayan glacier collapse, after Nepal had already started mass burials and DNA sampling for decomposing victims.