MK woman sees missing pair in video posted before Nepal flood
A woman from Milton Keynes is searching for her missing mother and aunt after a flash flood in Nepal. She identified them in a TikTok video taken near the border just before the disaster occurred.
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The story illustrates the role of social media in modern disaster tracking and the human impact of climate-related geological events.
Image source, Family handout Image caption, Sisters Hema Sunil Amin and Hemangini Jitendra Patel (right) are unaccounted for
A woman desperate for news of two missing family members says she saw them in a TikTok video posted just hours before the Nepal flash flood hit.
Tulshi Patel's mother, Hemangini Jitendra Patel, and her aunt, Hema Sunil Amin, were on a pilgrimage and had planned to travel into Tibet, but are now among the thousands of people unaccounted for.
"We did our own deep-dive research and we found a TikTok video that verified and showed my mum and auntie and three other people from the tour at the border waiting to cross, I guess, that the local Nepalese tour guide had made," she told radio station LBC.
The pharmacist from Milton Keynes said the journey had been on the pair's "bucket list".
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