Japanese family of five believed missing in Nepal flash floods
The family includes the parents in their 40s, as well as a 10-year-old girl and two boys age 6 and 3, a media report said.
A Japanese family of five, including a mother and father in their forties, and their three children aged 10, 6, and 3, are believed to be among the thousands still unaccounted for after flash floods and landslides struck the Nepal-Tibet border this week, according to media reports. The family was reportedly planning to cross the border from China and travel to Kathmandu when they last made contact with their driver near the border around 9 a.m. on Wednesday, close to the time of the catastrophic flooding.
The driver's communication was also cut off at roughly the same time. Scientists attribute the flooding to a glacier collapse and a rock landslide. Despite a hotel reservation for two adults in Kathmandu being made in the mother's name for a two-night stay starting Wednesday, the family has not arrived. Tokyo reports that five Japanese nationals are unaccounted for, though it has not been confirmed if they are the same individuals listed on the missing persons roster.
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