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Canadian Missing in Nepal Flooding Found Safe, Search Continues for 29
Canada is sending 18,000 emergency items and $5 million in aid as Nepal searches for 29 other missing Canadians after deadly floods.
- Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand announced on Tuesday that one Canadian citizen missing in Nepal's border region with China has been found safe after communication outages prevented earlier contact.
- Catastrophic flash flooding struck the Himalayan border region between Nepal and China one week ago after a glacier collapse, killing more than 1,100 people and leaving over 3,900 missing.
- Nepal's Foreign Ministry reports about 590 foreign nationals from 39 countries remain unaccounted for, while private and military helicopters continue rescue operations in the Nuwakot district.
- Canada is deploying more than 18,000 emergency items from Canadian Red Cross stockpiles to the region, supplementing the $5 million in humanitarian aid already pledged by Ottawa.
- Drone footage from Wednesday shows skeletal remains of homes and mud-caked debris lining the banks of the Trishuli river in the town of Devighat, illustrating the scale of devastation.
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One of the 30 Canadians missing in the devastating floods in Nepal on China's border was found safe and sound.
·Montreal, Canada
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OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says one of the 30 Canadian citizens and permanent residents missing after catastrophic flooding in Nepal's border region with China has been found safe.
Foreign Minister Anita Anand reported that one of the 30 Canadians and permanent residents who had disappeared during the catastrophic floods in the Nepal border region with China had been found safe and sound.
·Montreal, Canada
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