American teacher murdered in Nepal while volunteering for quake relief

Dahlia Yehia, from Kalamazoo, Michigan, has been missing since travelling to the city of Pokhara last month to help people who were injured or lost their homes following last April’s quake.

Mr Adhikari said the suspect had thrown Miss Yehia’s body into the Seti River from the KI Singh Bridge.

Narayan Paudel told police he bludgeoned the volunteer to death, stuffed her body in a sack and dumped it in the river on August 4, CNN reported.

He is now being treated at the Manipal Teaching Hospital, police vowing to continue the interrogation on Monday morning to find the motive for the murder. “We are all saddened by the loss of such a special spirit!”

The school also said it was planning a memorial in the coming days. “For those who haven’t had the joy of spending time with Dahlia, know that she is a giver, lover, and humanitarian, who devoted her life to others less fortunate both domestic and overseas”.

After the former art teacher appeared to be missing, her friends and family contacted the U.S. Embassy in Nepal. “Please keep Ms Y’s family in your thoughts and prayers as they go through this time of grief and loss”, the school posted. “As a high school student she used part of her senior art project to inform people about the plight of child soldiers in Uganda – years before the issue was gaining national attention”. ‘Unfortunately, we have not found her body yet.

Sci-Tech Preparatory/Facebook The Sci-Tech Preparatory school in Austin, Texas posted a tribute to Facebook after learning of their young colleague’s death.