00:05With a profound sense of pain and regret,
00:12I wish to bring to your notice that there has been a terrible…
00:26A flash flood between Tibet and Nepal border and on the Nepali side,
00:34as per the Indian news reports, about four hundred and eighty-four people have gone missing
00:41and on this side, we don't have any official information.
00:47Morning I left to go there personally and all phones are off,
00:52all telecommunications are down, roads are blocked, we are unable to go there.
01:04One of our groups…
01:28The S3 group that we met at Sagar and also met them that when we were trekking up, they were
01:35coming down.
01:40Of which twenty-two are from United States, twelve from Canada,
02:05eleven from Australia, nine from United Kingdom, four from Germany, three from France, three from Nepal,
02:14two from Netherlands, two from New Zealand, two from Singapore, two from Spain,
02:23one each from Finland, Hungary, Israel, Lithuania, Philippines, Portugal, Russia and South Africa,
02:31a total of eighty and also this includes thirty-four male and forty-six female participants
02:45and a few other volunteers who were camped in the nearby hotels, three volunteers and one doctor.
03:05I think the replacement doctor who came in just day before yesterday from the ashram,
03:16two of the ashram but we have no any kind of official confirmation of any kind but looking at the
03:35scale of destruction,
03:37it looks bad. The same building where we were for the immigration just a week ago,
03:48that entire building is washed away and part of the town is washed away.
03:55We still don't know the other numbers. All communication is down, so we have no way. Within the hour,
04:07we informed all the embassies of these countries, both in India and Nepal and we've been active in this but
04:16there is really nothing much.
04:22At 9.05 we received a message from the group leader who is Ayesha Angapraveen, who has been with us.
04:47At 9.05 he sent a message that they have arrived at the immigration.
05:10So after that this happened at 9.14 and Praveen who was leading the team,
05:23who has been with us for more than two decades, full time Ayesha Angapraveen with us and we noticed that
05:32his Nepal phone did not come active through the…
05:39if he had crossed over his Nepal phone should have come active, it did not come.
05:58So literally the entire group was there in the building.
06:26So this is a terrible and an extraordinary event.
06:32which unfortunately has turned out this way.
06:36Well, we don't have any numbers as such, but the overall numbers could be anywhere around fifteen hundred plus.
06:45And many of the Nepal guides were with us, their families were there.
06:51How many of them we do not know yet.
06:56But on that side is 484, that's what they are saying.
07:00This side there is absolutely no information.
07:03But that town where we entered, almost half the town is cowed out of the valley.
07:12So it is said that some lake or river lake burst open.
07:21Some people in Nepal, some news channels are saying there was a 4.9 Richter earthquake about half an hour
07:30before.
07:31Other people are denying that. We don't know. There is no proper information.
07:37And we should have been there the same time tomorrow morning.
07:46So here we are. So we are doing everything possible.
07:56We are still looking if we can, we are seeking permission through the Indian embassy,
08:04the Chinese embassy in India and the American embassy is working on this,
08:08to see if they can permit me and a group of people to be there and see what we can
08:13do.
08:13So after a long wait, it's already been nearly… it was at nine o'clock let's say,
08:21it's already nearly twelve hours.
08:24So about half an hour ago we've sent messages to all the families.
08:43So, let's get married.
08:44So, let me just go ahead and see what we've said.
08:44Now, let's go ahead and see what we were saying.
08:45We are getting that started to get a new education because we're around in Santa Fe.
08:45And then what do we have a Wednesday morning?
08:45Let me just go ahead and see what we needed that.
08:45Let me see who's at the beach and we have a tamaa.
08:45I get to the right of the beach.
08:45That's how we keep it.
08:46So, let's focus on that.
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