US Families with Relatives Missing in the Nepal-China Floods Plead for More Rescue Help
The family says the Himalayan Glacier tour group is still missing, and Mukti Patel is urging more countries to join the rescue effort.
- Families in Virginia are pleading with the Government to deploy search and rescue resources to Nepal after catastrophic flash floods left their relatives missing near the China-Nepal border.
- Catastrophic flash floods struck the region on Wednesday, killing hundreds and leaving more than 2,000 missing, including about 90 Americans according to the State Department.
- Mukti Patel seeks information about her father, Umesh Kumar, sister Akanksha, and in-laws Ishan and Shilpa; Anurag Goel awaits news on his father, Anil Goel, who was hiking near the border.
- Anurag Goel is urging coordination with Nepal and China to locate survivors, noting his father and eight other Americans were last seen at an immigration processing building before the landslide.
- While families remain hopeful, they describe an agonizing wait for news. "Faith has always been really important for my family," Goel said, as relatives in Virginia continue processing the tragedy.
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US families with relatives missing in the Nepal-China floods plead for
Mukti Patel has huddled with family and friends at her parents’ Richmond, Virginia, home since her dad, sister and two other relatives went missing in the catastrophic flash floods along the Nepal-China border. She knows the hotel
Virginia family with 4 relatives missing in the Nepal-China floods pleads for more rescue help - The Boston Globe
As rescuers continued pulling survivors from the mud, family members of some of the more than 2,000 people missing in the disaster were still holding out hope that their loved ones survived.
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U.S. families with relatives missing in the Nepal-China floods plead for more rescue help
Family members of some of the more than 2,000 people missing in the disaster were still holding out hope that their loved ones survived.
Virginia family with 4 relatives missing in the Nepal-China floods pleads for more rescue help – WTOP News
Mukti Patel has huddled with family and friends at her parents’ Richmond, Virginia, home since her dad, sister and two other relatives went missing in the catastrophic flash floods along the Nepal-China border. She knows the hotel they were staying in was swept away. But as she shared memories of them on Friday, she caught herself. “I shouldn’t talk in past tense yet,” she said. “We don’t know anything.” As rescuers continued pulling survivors f…
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US families with relatives missing in the Nepal-China floods plead for more rescue help
A Virginia family with four relatives missing in the flash floods along the Nepal-China border is calling for more resources to help with rescue efforts.
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