Canadian Safe Following Nepal Floods but 29 Remain Missing
One of the 30 Canadian citizens and permanent residents who were reported missing following the devastating flooding in Nepal has been found safe. Contact with the unnamed person was successfully established on Sept. 2, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand has announced. “The individual was unreachable due to communication outages and established contact yesterday,” Ananad said [...]
TL;DR
- One Canadian citizen or permanent resident reported missing in Nepal floods has been found safe.
- Contact was re-established on September 2nd after communication outages.
- Twenty-nine Canadians and permanent residents are still missing.
- Global Affairs Canada is collecting DNA samples from families of the missing, with assistance from the RCMP and police in Nepal and China.
- The DNA collection is intended to assist in identification efforts if required.