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Nepal Floods: Contact Re-established With Two Lithuanians, Others Unaccounted For
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Nepal Floods: Contact Re-established With Two Lithuanians, Others Unaccounted For

From Delfi · () Lithuanian

Translated from Lithuanian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Contact has been re-established with two Lithuanians in Nepal following devastating floods, but the status of other citizens remains unclear.
  • The Foreign Ministry is actively working to locate missing individuals, some of whom may be without communication.
  • The floods have claimed over 826 lives in Nepal, including at least 579 tourists, with over 1,300 people missing in Nepal and China combined.

Two Lithuanians have been accounted for following catastrophic floods in Nepal, but the whereabouts of other citizens in the affected region remain unknown. Vilmantas Vitkauskas, head of the National Crisis Management Center (NKVC), stated on Thursday that the Foreign Ministry is intensely engaged in efforts to locate missing individuals, some of whom have lost communication.

People, of course, left without communication. Whether they are missing or we simply cannot reach them – we are clarifying this.

— Vilmantas VitkauskasHead of the National Crisis Management Center (NKVC) explaining the uncertainty surrounding missing Lithuanians.

"People are, of course, left without communication. Whether they are missing or we simply cannot reach them – we are clarifying this," Vitkauskas told journalists. He could not provide a specific number of Lithuanians whose fate is uncertain but confirmed contact had been made with two individuals.

The Lithuanian Embassy in India has received information that one Lithuanian citizen may have been at a border crossing point between Nepal and China with a group of pilgrims during the disaster. Efforts to contact this individual are ongoing, and no official information has been received from Nepalese authorities. The embassy continues to liaise with Lithuanians in Nepal and an Indian ashram.

I know that two people have been contacted, of course, where they are, but how many are still remaining, I cannot comment on this at the moment.

— Vilmantas VitkauskasHead of the National Crisis Management Center (NKVC) confirming contact with some Lithuanians but not others.

The devastating floods have resulted in at least 826 deaths in Nepal, with 579 of those being tourists from both domestic and international locations. The total number of missing persons across Nepal and China has surpassed 1,300. Authorities have recovered 165 bodies on both sides of the border. The massive flood wave, triggered by a glacial collapse according to the U.S. Geological Survey, has destroyed entire towns and villages in the Nepal-Tibet border region.

Contact with the citizen has not been established. No official information about the Lithuanian citizen has been received from the Nepalese authorities.

— Ministry of Foreign Affairs (URM)Statement regarding the search for a Lithuanian citizen near the Nepal-China border.
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Originally published by Delfi in Lithuanian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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