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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Cait Kelly in Kathmandu

Families balance hope and despair in race to find survivors in Nepal as 42 Australians still missing

Relatives of people missing following flooding in Nepal visit Tribhuvan University teaching hospital in Kathmandu, as they search for their loved ones.
Relatives of people missing following flooding in Nepal visit Tribhuvan University teaching hospital in Kathmandu, as they search for their loved ones. Photograph: Ghanashyam Shrestha/JNA/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

Some of them are young, some old; most of them appear to be men. Some of them could be sleeping, except for the mud that covers their bodies. Some, it seems, would be impossible to recognise even if you knew them well.

Every few hours Nepalese authorities hang pictures of the deceased, who have not been identified, on a wall at the back of a teaching hospital in Kathmandu.

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