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Aussie Found Safe as Families Search for Nepal Missing
Severino called her parents from Gosainkunda as Nepal’s flood death toll reached 626 and Australia’s missing list rose to 41, officials said.
- On Saturday, the Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed that 41 Australians remain unaccounted for following devastating floods in Nepal triggered by a wall of mud and rock near the Chinese border.
- Cara Severino, 26, became the first identified Australian to make contact with family, calling her parents Friday morning from Gosainkunda where she had become stranded.
- Rescue teams face immense challenges, including mud up to 1.5 metres thick limiting helicopter operations, though more than 3700 people have been rescued as about 10,000 homes lie destroyed.
- Desperate families have flown to Nepal seeking answers, with 15 Australians missing from a trek with Himalayan Glacier Adventures and others from the Isha Foundation also unaccounted for.
- This disaster could represent the worst loss of Australian life on foreign soil since the 2002 Bali bombings, while the flooding threatens a $6.9 billion economic blow to Nepal's infrastructure.
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‘Blessed’ to be Australian: Survivor of Nepalese floods speaks out
Cara Severino, an Australian thought to have been missing in the Nepalese floods, has been located by consular officials. Dozens of others are still listed as missing.
·North Sydney, Australia
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Between the mud and the thousands of people missing from the Himalayan floods, rescuers find the first survivors while the humanitarian crisis gets worse and the morgues collapse.
·Madrid, Spain
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