Photo: Macro Eye/FlickrAFP · 19 Aug 2016, 09:56Published: 19 Aug 2016 09:56 GMT+02:00A body believed to be that of a 35-year-old French tourist who went missing in Nepal last week has been found, officials said Friday, as police awaited autopsy results to confirm her identity. Police began searching for the missing woman after a bag containing her passport, clothes and notebook was discovered near a highway last Friday in Syangja, 153 kilometres (95 miles) west of Kathmandu. "The face had decomposed beyond recognition, but we believe it is the missing person after her friends identified her hair, clothes and jewellery," Pulami told AFP. The body has been taken to the capital Kathmandu for an autopsy. Story continues below…But the Nepali tourist industry has suffered since a massive earthquake struck the country in April 2015, killing almost 9,000 people.

Source: The Local August 19, 2016 06:56 UTC