A woman desperate for news of two missing family members says she saw them in a TikTok video posted just hours before the Nepal flash flood hit.
Tulshi Patel’s mother, Hemangini Jitendra Patel, and her aunt, Hema Sunil Amin, were on a pilgrimage and had planned to travel into Tibet, but are now among the thousands of people unaccounted for.
“We did our own deep-dive research and we found a TikTok video that verified and showed my mum and auntie and three other people from the tour at the border waiting to cross, I guess, that the local Nepalese tour guide had made,” she told radio station LBC.
The pharmacist from Milton Keynes said the journey had been on the pair’s “bucket list”.
Tulshi Patel said she last spoke to them on Monday and had received a photo of them on Tuesday, adding that their last known location had come from a GPS signal from the tour group at a place called Friendship Bridge.
Of the video, she said: “It was Wednesday morning, just before 06:00, Nepal time.
“They were supposed to have crossed the border on Tuesday, but I guess due to weather conditions or whichever it was, they got delayed and unfortunately crossed over on Wednesday.”