According to the Nepali Embassy in Delhi, 26 Nepalis have gone missing, 21 in Dharali in Uttarakhand and 5 in Bankura in Paudigarhwal.
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The number of missing Nepalis in India's Uttarakhand last week has reached 26. According to the Nepali Embassy in Delhi, 21 people are missing in Dharali in Uttarakhand and 5 in Bankura in Paudigarhwal.
According to the embassy, Janak Bahadur Shahi, Ravi Singh, Karan Bahadur Singh, Rowin Singh, Gagan Bahadur, Gorakh Bahadur, Ram Bahadur Shahi, Hari Bahadur Khadka, Prabhati, Keshav, Nirmala Khadka, Laxman, Subas Vick, Ramesh and Priya are missing in Dharali area. Dipak Magar, Suraj Rana, Man Bahadur, Neem Bahadur, Ravi Singh and Ram Bahadur are also present in the statement released by the embassy.
According to the embassy, among those missing in Padigarhwal are Narendra Khadka of Madhuvan Municipality 5 of Bardia, his wife Sandhya, son Roman and Amrita Pariyar and Subas Damai of Gulria Municipality. They went missing on Wednesday in Bankura village of Khailishain area of Paudigarhwal.
They had come to Bankura to work as a wage earner for road construction, and they were sitting on the side of the road burying broken pieces. Budharba, along with their tents, were swept away by the landslide. Relatives also reached Bankura to search for them, but they returned home after not finding them. "There is no hope of finding him now, no matter how much we search, there is no possibility," Som Bahadur, father of Subas said, "We will return home and do the work." He, who works in Uttarkashi, reached Garhwal on Saturday after his son went missing. After searching for two days and not finding him, he returned home . Narendra and Amrita's family have also returned home to do kiriya after not being found while searching.
In the Dharali area of Uttarkashi on Tuesday, the flood that occurred in the Khirganga river after heavy rains has devastated the Dharali market on the way to Gangotri. The bank of Bhagirathi river flowing from Gangotri Dham and Dharali, which is the last market of Dham, has turned into a bog after the flood. Dozens of houses and hotels in Dharali have been buried by the flood, while some have reached Bhagirathi.
Nepalis who went to work in hotels and apple farms in Dharali area are estimated to have been flooded. Uttarkashi DM (District Officer) Prashant Arya said that the group of 26 people who were said to be missing in the area came into contact only on Sunday. According to him, the group went up to the hilly area to save their lives after the flood. After the phone service resumed in Dharali area from Sunday, those who were said to be missing are going to get in touch. Nepalis also came in contact through phone contact.
According to the Nepali Embassy in Delhi, 13 people have been rescued from Dharali area so far. The rescued are staying in Haridwar and Dehradun areas. Some have also taken shelter in the community kitchen operated in Dharali.
"Unrelevant Vener List is coming from various districts, efforts are being made to explain that list to the Uttarkashi administration," Embassy Counselor Prakash Malla said, "So far 26 people have gone missing due to the floods in Uttarakhand and 13 people have been rescued."
After phone and electricity service resumed in Dharali area, the search has been intensified . Those who escaped during the flood and saved their lives have come in contact. There is also a group of 26 Nepalis among them. They who work in Border Road Organization (BRO) have come in contact on Sunday . However, their names and addresses have not been made public .
'Many people may still come in contact, we are searching,' DM Arya said, 'Excavation work is going on in the flooded area.' Houses and hotels have been buried in the place where they were cut. It is estimated that Nepali workers may have also disappeared inside those buried houses.
