Watford’s Nepalese community held a vigil in the town centre to show support for victims of the flash flood disaster.
In early September, the group united by the pond after more than 1,400 people died and thousands more remained missing due to destructive floods in the Nepal-Tibet region.
The flooding and debris flows destroyed the Gyirong Port on the China-Nepal border and attacked dozens of settlements along a 45-mile stretch of the Trishuli River in Nepal.
Peter Taylor, Mayor of Watford, chose to pay his respects to the victims and families affected by the tragedy by attending the Watford vigil.
He said: “I have been heartbroken by the footage of the floods. I am grateful to the Nepalese community for inviting me to the vigil. It was an important opportunity to come together at an incredibly difficult time.
“Many of our Nepalese residents serve Watford by working for the NHS. On behalf of the town, I offered them our solidarity. My thoughts are with those who have lost loved ones, those still waiting for news, and everyone who has had their lives turned upside down by this devastating event.”
The geological event, thought to have been a glacier collapse on Langtang Lirung in the Himalayas, is believed to have caused a chain reaction whose tremors were detected by seismometers worldwide, with magnitudes reaching 5.2.
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