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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Henry Belot and Kat Wong

‘Lots of my friends are missing’: fears and prayers as Australia’s Nepali diaspora desperately seek answers after flood

Nepali Australian man Suman Shrestha at Central station, Sydney, Australia
‘It’s hard … I know them well’: Suman Shrestha fears two friends he grew up with in Nepal may be dead after the devastating flood. Photograph: Jessica Hromas/The Guardian

When Suman Shrestha opened his phone at work and saw vision of a thick, muddy wall of flood water smashing into towns in his country of birth, he almost did not believe what he was seeing.

“It was awful – I called my family to see if this was really happening and to see if the news reports were right,” says Shrestha, who moved to Australia from Kathmandu in 2017.

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