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In pictures: Missing in Nepal


Introduction

In 2001 following the breakdown in the truce between the government and the Maoists, 20 young men left home in Jogimara, Dhading District to work on an airport runway being built 800 km away in western Nepal.

Seventeen of them never returned.

Some families still hope of their return, but others fear they are dead.

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