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Australians Missing in Nepal’s Deadliest Flash Floods in Years as Families Cling to Hope

A catastrophic wall of water has swallowed communities along Nepal’s Bhotekoshi and Trishuli river basins, leaving families in Australia in agonising limbo. Among the missing: an Australian Defence Force member and two young Sydney boys. With more than 1,500 people still unaccounted for and 469 confirmed dead, the human cost is staggering, and still climbing.