US volunteer Dahila Yehia beaten to death by teacher in Nepal
Police say US volunteer Dahlia Yehia, a 27-year-old American woman who went to Nepal to help people affected by the 2015 Nepal Earthquake, was beaten to death by a teacher in Pokhara.
The body of the US volunteer has not been recovered.
Police investigators say teacher identified as Narayan Paudel has confessed to beating Dahlia Yehia to death and her body thrown in the river. However the motive behind the crime has still not known.
Dahlia Yehia, young art teacher, didn’t inform her boss that she was going to resign from her job to volunteer in Nepal.
According to the New York Daily News, Dahlia Yehia arrived in Nepal on July 20 where she intended to serve the people affected by the devastating earthquake in whatever ways possible. She was working at Sci-Tech Preparatory school in Austin, Texas, before coming to Nepal on a one-month visa.