{"id":876125,"date":"2026-08-29T19:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T19:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876125\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T19:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T19:02:11","slug":"nepal-floods-death-toll-and-number-of-missing-grows-in-nepal-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876125\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal floods: Death toll and number of missing grows in Nepal and China"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Mukti Patel has huddled with family and friends at her parents\u2019 Richmond, Virginia, home since her dad, sister and two other relatives went missing<\/a> in the catastrophic flash floods<\/a> along the Nepal-China border.\n <\/p>\n

\n She knows the hotel they were staying in with their tour group on a two-week excursion to the region<\/a> was swept away. But as she shared memories of them yesterday, she caught herself.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI shouldn\u2019t talk in past tense yet,\u201d she said. \u201cWe don\u2019t know anything.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Patel, 27, said her dad, Umesh Kumar, 56, had wanted to make the trip for many years and traveled through India to Nepal, where he was joined by her sister, Akanksha, 32, and her sister\u2019s husband, Ishan, 32.\n <\/p>\n

\n Ishan\u2019s mom, Shilpa, 59, was also on the trek. Ishan and Shilpa Patel have dual Canadian and US citizenship while Umesh Kumar and Akanksha Patel are Canadian citizens, according to Mukti Patel.\n <\/p>\n

\n Akanksha Patel is a psychiatrist who wants to break stigma around mental health problems, her sister said.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cEverything I\u2019ve done in life has been off the blueprint of my sister,\u201d Mukti Patel said between tears in a phone interview. \u201cThere\u2019s no ounce of meanness in her.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Her father is a joyous person who helped victims of the Covid-19 pandemic, and her brother-in-law, an orthopedic surgeon, has brought great happiness to her sister\u2019s life, she said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Ishan Patel turned 32 on Wednesday, and the family called to wish him a happy birthday. That was their last contact.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mukti Patel has huddled with family and friends at her parents\u2019 Richmond, Virginia, home since her dad, sister…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-876125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}