They went to Mount Kailash. Then calls stopped: Indian-Americans missing after Nepal floods
Kinnari and Mihir Patel, originally from Gujarat's Vadodara and living in New Zealand for three decades, disappeared on August 21 while on a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash. Their family in Vadodara had last spoken to them on August 26, according to Kinnari's brother Chirag Patel.
Meanwhile, Shashidharan Sreedharan, who is in the US, is desperately searching for his wife Rekha and 14-year-old daughter Rashi, who were also part of the pilgrimage. They were last heard from on August 26.
Another Indian-American family, the Patels of New York, had their last communication with Venus Rajnikant Patel, a 45-year-old US citizen, just hours before the disaster. He was preparing for the pilgrimage for two years when the floods hit the Nepal-Tibet border region.
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