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At Kathmandu’s TU Teaching Hospital, families of those missing in the floods wait anxiously for updates.<\/p>\n
Holding up her phone, Ram Khumari Shrestha says: “This is my husband. He was off to Rasuwa as a part of his driving job. He was in contact with me until 8 pm yesterday.<\/p>\n
“But I couldn’t call him this morning. The phone was switched off,” she told the BBC.<\/p>\n
Mani Shrestha Bishwa was also camped out at the hospital on Wednesday night, hoping to hear from his younger brother, cousin, uncle and friend.<\/p>\n
“I last contacted them at 8:30 in the morning,” he said.<\/p>\n
Trekking guide Sonam Dorjee missed the flood in his home village of Rasiwa Syafru by about an hour. He had left at 08:00 local time.<\/p>\n
As he was driving to Kathmandu, Dorjee told the BBC he had heard the sound of floods gushing into their village.<\/p>\n
“It [sounded] like an earthquake,” he said. “My house has collapsed… I have seen a photo.”<\/p>\n
Dorjee said his sister, Dechen Tamang, was missing, along with her husband and several other family members.<\/p>\n
He described the flood as “sudden and devastating”.<\/p>\n
“Many survivors are now left without homes and they need emergency rescue and evacuation, as well as food, temporary accommodation and medical support.”<\/p>\n
He is praying his sister is found alive. “There is a 10% chance, we hope,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n