BETTIAH, Aug. 29 -- A bloated body of a man, appearing to be in his 40s, and several other objects which have swept into Indian territory from Nepal have been retrieved in Bihar's West Champaran district, people familiar with the matter said. Sharing information, Bagaha's sub divisional police officer (SDPO) Nehar Bhushan said that the body, appearing to be a man of Nepali stock, was recovered from Thari village under Valmikinagar. "Prima facie, the person appears to be in his 40s and the body is completely bloated," the SDPO said. This is the first body recovered in West Champaran after floodwaters gushed into Indian territory following flash floods in Nepal. Swinging into action after the body seizure, the Bagaha police sent the body for postmortem. "In the meantime, the Nawalparasi police in Nepal have been updated and pictures of the body shared with them. We are waiting for their response, while such bodies are kept for 72 hours as unknown as per rule," said SDPO. In yet another development, while thousands of people fled from the low-lying area fearing flooding from the waters discharged from Nepal, a group of people took to a perilous act and dived into the surging waters to salvage a host of things including timber, LPG cylinders, vehicle parts, and even fish near Valmikinagar in West Champaran. The matter came to light as a video footage of hefty fishes and other salvaged items flooded the social media platforms on Friday. Sharing his team's account of the risky salvage operation, Alisher Qureshi, a resident of 3-RD in Valmikinagar, said that the scavenging took place near Kaleshwar Mandir even as water levels at the barrage surged around 11 pm on Friday - a rise that prompted authorities to open all 36 gates of the Valmikinagar barrage in West Champaran beforehand. Qureshi, whose team comprised ten members, said that the group spent five to six hours scavenging from 11 pm onwards. "We collected logs of timber, a tyre-fitted JCB ring and four LPG gas cylinders, besides window and door frames flowing through the river. However, the most prized catch was about 1.5 quintals of fish, one of them weighing a hefty 90 kilograms," he said, adding that only a small portion of the material flowing past could actually be retrieved. The fishes have been handed over to the fisherman. Video-footage showed that the two pieces of fishes occupying the full space of pedal-propelled cart. For this, the group comprising its members namely Raja Kumar, Yunish Ansari, Neeraj Kumar and Shankar Kumar took the good use of rope to retrieve the objects. "We did face the problem more because of darkness around than the current of water which was normal to us compared to several days we have faced in the monsoon. The retrieving process was carried out in a structured and step-by-step manner by tying an end of the rope to a trunk of a tree," said Yunish Ansari describing the operation. Raja Kumar, another member of the group, however, rued at his helplessness at the failure to retrieve SUVs from the waters. "We all saw a black Scorpio and E-rickshaw floating before our eyes in broad daylight on Thursday. But, we just saw them flowing only," said Raja, a resident of Valmikinagar. However, none of them spotted any human body flowing through the area. Executive engineer Iqbal Anwar, deputed at the Valmikinagar barrage, said a large number of carcasses, along with household articles and other debris, were seen passing through the area as the gush of floodwater from Nepal crossed the barrage. He said that the scene presented a grim sight with muddy waters carrying the remains of livestocks among other objects. "Now only muddy water is flowing through the river," Anwar said. When contacted, West Champaran's district magistrate (DM) Taranjot Singh refused that any object was retrieved from the river by locals....