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More than 1,300 missing after deadly floodwaters wipe out villages on Nepal-China border

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Amarachi Orie, Hanako Montgomery, Sophie Tanno, Chris Dolce, Laura Sharman, Marco Storel, Ross Adkin, Lucas Lilieholm, Issy Ronald, Duarte Mendonca, Sandi Sidhu, Laura Paddison, Stephanie Yang, Ayushi Shah, Sylvie Zhuang, Lex Harvey, Kunal Sehgal, Jerome Taylor, Simone McCarthy, Hanna Park, John Liu, Max Saltman, Dakota Smith, Jennifer Hansler, Hira Humayun, Elise Hammond, Angela Fritz, Billy Stockwell, Jeff Winter, Sugam Pokharel, Thomas Bordeaux, Jennifer Hauser, Gawon Bae, Niamh Kennedy, Magdalena Sofia Vitores Moreno, Oliver Sherwood, CNN Staff
More than 1,300 missing after deadly floodwaters wipe out villages on Nepal-China border
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Over 1,300 people, including hundreds of foreign nationals, remain missing following catastrophic flash floods on the Nepal-China border. Families of the missing are struggling to obtain information as communication infrastructure remains severely impacted.

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The scale of the disaster and the high number of missing foreign nationals highlights a significant humanitarian crisis and the challenges of disaster response in remote regions.

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Link Copied! Uncle of US teen missing in Nepal flooding describes feeling "helpless" By Ayushi Shah and Sophie Tanno Rekha Shashidharan, 54, and her daughter Rashi, 14 have been missing in Nepal since the floods began on Wednesday, August 26. Courtesy of Shekhar Agrawal The uncle of a US teenager missing in flash flooding in Nepal has described feeling “helpless” as he tries to obtain information about her and her mother’s whereabouts.

New Yorker Rashi Shashidharan, 14, has been missing in Nepal alongside her mother Rekha Shashidharan, 54, since the catastrophe unfolded on Wednesday.

They are two of the several dozen American nationals who have been reported missing in the disaster. Overall, more than 1,300 people remain unaccounted for, including at least 700 foreign nationals.

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