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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Izzie Addison

British volunteer aid worker says he was mistaken for floods survivor

People salvaging their belongings from a building damaged by flash flooding in the Nuwakot district of Nepal (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) - (AP)

A British aid worker said authorities in Nepal mistook him for a survivor of the devastating flash floods that hit the country last week and wrongly announced that he had been rescued.

Former Gloucester councillor Alastair Chambers, 45, told the Press Association the mix-up happened when he returned to the capital Kathmandu on a humanitarian aid flight after volunteering in a remote village.

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