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In Pictures: Coffin brings home Nepali driver killed in Kuwait drone attack

By Skanda Gautam

The wife of Som Kumar Tamang, 44, mourns beside his coffin after the body of the Nepali migrant worker arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Sunday, August 2, 2026. Photo: Skanda Gautam/THT

KATHMANDU, AUGUST 2 The wife of Som Kumar Tamang, 44, mourns beside his coffin after the body of the Nepali migrant worker arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Sunday, August 2, 2026. Tamang, a driver from Tehrathum district working in Kuwait since 2022, was killed in a drone attack in northern Kuwait on July 30 amid heightened regional tensions. He is the second Nepali worker to lose his life in the escalating conflict in West Asia. Photos by Skanda Gautam for The Himalayan Times