00:00Thirty-three days on, families of 55 Malaysians still missing after the Nepal glacial flash flood are demanding answers.
00:08They want authorities to say what is being done to find their loved ones,
00:12whether any belongings have been recovered and whether some of them crossed into Tibet before the disaster.
00:19For relatives like S. Punitha, the wait is becoming increasingly difficult
00:23as uncertainty over the fate of her niece, 33-year-old Suguna Balan, continues.
00:30When my brother and my brother are in, they are still in trouble.
00:35They are still traumatised.
00:38It's not like us. At least we can.
00:40Today is 33 days. We can accept what's going on.
00:45But they can't accept what's going on.
00:47They are just a child, right?
00:49Punitha said Suguna was the family's main breadwinner,
00:52leaving them under growing financial strain.
00:54She said families need concrete information on what happened and what to do next.
01:00Harap-harap lah kita akan dapat conclusion hari ni, apa-apa je terjadi.
01:04Sebab 55 mangsa ni, kita tak ada satu news pun.
01:09Even mereka tak cakap dia ada jumpa dia punya luggage ke, dia punya barang perbarian ke,
01:14tak ada, dia tak cakap apa-apa.
01:15Dia tak cakap jumpa apa kan.
01:18So, macam sekarang, everything is financially is very affected.
01:23Macam anak buat ay ni, first in-comer for the family.
01:29So, harap-harap kita akan dapat information, maklumak yang kukul lah,
01:34untuk apa yang further detail untuk kita nak buat.
01:40Punitha also said she was not in the next-of-kin WhatsApp group,
01:43making it difficult to receive updates directly.
01:46Meanwhile, M. Subramaniam, son-in-law of 74-year-old missing Malaysian Krishnan Vadivelu,
01:53said families were still hoping their loved ones had survived.
01:56Dan hari ni adalah hari ke-33, kita memahami semua keluarga tengah terdesak mendapat jawapan.
02:04Dan kami tiada jawapan lagi, sama ada mereka hidup ataupun tidak.
02:07So, kami tengah masih menaruh harapan tinggi bahawa ada sebarang berita bahawa mereka selamat
02:14ataupun mereka tersangkut di mana-mana camp ke apa-apa.
02:18Tapi, masih tiada jawapan.
02:20Subramaniam said families wanted updates on search operations on both sides of the Nepal-China border,
02:27including from authorities in Nepal and Beijing.
02:30They also want clarification on whether the Malaysians crossed the Tibet Immigration Checkpoint.
02:35He said his father-in-law and 26 others were last known to be inside a building
02:40with the information conveyed to Wismaputra.
02:54Sunday's closed-door briefing was the second official engagement with the affected families,
03:00following the first on August 30th.
03:03Not all families were represented at the first meeting.
03:05The briefing involved representatives from NADMA, SMART, PDRM, the Department of Chemistry,
03:13JPN and JKM, among others.
03:16The August 26 floods and debris flow, triggered by an ice and rock collapse in the upper catchment
03:22of Lendakola in Tibet, were reported to have killed more than 1,450 people,
03:28while thousands remain unaccounted for.
03:36Lendakola in Tibet was on the field of the Norway,
03:37and now the final meeting was ended in monasteries.
03:41The following two are the two people who have been allowed to arrive at the beginning,
