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Indian-origin Kailash pilgrims remain missing after Nepal floods
The Indian Express··28 Aug
Families in India and the United States are searching for relatives silent after Nepal-Tibet border flash floods on the Kailash Mansarovar route. The MEA said about 320 Indian nationals remain uncontactable, while about 400 Indians on the Chinese side are safe. Ninety-six stranded there have crossed into Nepal. About 100 people of Indian origin with other nationalities also remain uncontactable.
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What It Means For You
- Relatives of Indian-origin pilgrims should keep checking MEA and embassy channels as missing counts are still being reconciled.
- People holding non-Indian passports of Indian origin are counted separately in the MEA's uncontactable total of about 100.
- Those already on the Chinese side who can call home are listed as safe while evacuation is arranged.
What's Happening
- The Indian Express report follows named families across Vadodara, New York and other US links waiting on Kailash route news.
- Kinnari and Mihir Patel, Vadodara-origin residents of New Zealand for about 30 years, set out on August 21 and stopped answering phones.
- Shashidharan Sreedharan in the US last spoke on August 26 to wife Rekha and 14-year-old daughter Rashi.
Families named in the waiting list
- Venus Rajnikant Patel, a 45-year-old US citizen, called family from a Nepalese-side hotel hours before the disaster, his brother told AP.
- Indicative combined Nepal and Tibet figures in the same package put overall missing far higher than the Indian-only MEA count.
- Roads, bridges and the Gyirong border complex were reported gone after the Wednesday flood surge.
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