Families descend on Nepal in search of missing tourists
Families and volunteers are checking hospitals, morgues and police records as Nepal says 3,900 people remain missing, including 583 foreign nationals.
- Desperate families are scouring hospitals and morgues across Nepal one week after catastrophic floods struck the Himalayan border region on August 26, killing over 1,200 people in Nepal and China.
- Triggered by a glacier collapse and landslide, the destructive flood smashed towns and bridges in Rasuwa district, leaving at least 583 foreign nationals among thousands reported missing.
- Relatives wait outside Kathmandu's tourist police headquarters to register blood samples for DNA identification, including 24-year-old Eduards Sarma, a Dublin-based vet technician searching for his missing mother.
- Officials have commandeered sightseeing aircraft to deliver aid as rescue efforts remain hampered by destroyed roads throughout the mountainous region, while police collect DNA samples to identify bodies.
- Nepal's National Tourism Agency warns the disaster will significantly impact the tourism sector, a major revenue source for the country, amid concerns over the region's economic recovery.
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Son flying from Ireland to Nepal in desperate race to find missing mother
A fundraiser has been set up for a Latvian man living in Ireland to fly out to Nepal after his mother went missing in last week’s catastrophic floods. Eduards Sarma last heard from his mother Evita ten minutes before the start of the natural disaster which has killed over 1,100 people in Nepal and China […]
Son flying to Nepal in desperate race to find missing mum
A fundraiser has been set up for a Latvian man living in Ireland to fly out to Nepal after his mother went missing in last week’s catastrophic floods. Eduards Sarma last heard from his mother Evita ten minutes before the start of the natural disaster which has killed over 1,100 people in Nepal and China […]
Radio France Internationale
Families descend on Nepal in search of missing tourists
Outside Kathmandu's tourist police headquarters, Sanjeev Rai was trapped in agonising uncertainty. The 53-year-old American flew to Nepal after learning that his wife, Jiwan Jyoti, was untraceable while returning from a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash, the sacred peak revered by Hindus and Buddhists. "The day I arrived I said, let's find a helicopter, I'm going to look for her," Rai told AFP. But Timure, the village in Rasuwa district where she was …
Clinging to hope: Families descend on Nepal in search of missing tourists
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