Police search for body of U.S. teacher killed in Nepal

Police in Nepal were searching a river on Tuesday for the body of an American woman who had traveled there to help earthquake victims and was killed for her money, an officer said.

Dahlia Yehia, 25, was murdered in Pokhara, a city famed for its lakeside views of mountains, and her body dumped in a river, said Hari Bahadur Pal, a police superintendent in the town.

Yehia, a teacher from Austin, Texas, arrived in Pokhara on Aug. 4 to help victims of the earthquake that devastated the Himalayan nation in April, but was killed three days later.

In Austin on Tuesday, Yehia was remembered as "one of the cool teachers," by Wayside Schools Sci-Tech Preparatory Principal Mary Brinkman in remarks posted on the Austin American-Statesman newspaper website.

"She was a soft-spoken teacher but she always had a smile," Brinkman said of the teacher students called "Miss Y", who had only been at the school for a few months before resigning to go help in Nepal.

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