Sydney man Nava flew to Nepal thinking his wife had been found. Crushingly, ‘the search goes on’

Sumi Adhikari, 41, went missing in the catastrophic Nepalese flood disaster, along with 40 other Australians. Photograph: Supplied

Nava Pandey had hoped the search for his wife was over.

Nepal’s disaster management agency had been releasing names of people it had found in stages. One of them was almost identical to his wife, Sumi Adhikari, who, along with 40 other Australians, went missing in the catastrophic Nepal-Tibet flood disaster on Wednesday.