{"id":83323,"date":"2026-08-30T10:27:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T10:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/83323\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T10:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T10:27:20","slug":"nepal-tibet-floods-live-updates-six-australians-missing-on-chinese-side-of-nepal-tibet-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/83323\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal-Tibet floods live updates: Six Australians missing on Chinese side of Nepal-Tibet border"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest reports show that 42 Australians are currently missing, with the breakdown identifying 36 in Nepal and 6 in Tibet.<\/p>\n

Here’s just some of the people we’ve been able to identify as among the missing.<\/p>\n

1. Wife and mother\u00a0Shylaja Muralitharan,\u00a0aged 42.<\/p>\n

2. Husband and father\u00a0Chandrasekaran Muralitharan, aged 47.<\/p>\n

3. Son\u00a0\u00a0Ashwin Muralitharan, aged 14.<\/p>\n

4. Son\u00a0Aarush Muralitharan, aged 11.<\/p>\n

\"AShylaja, Aarush, Ashwin and Chandrasekaran Muralitharan were part of a Himalayan Glacier Adventure group. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Wife and mother\u00a0Lakshmi Iyer.<\/p>\n

6. Husband and father\u00a0Sreedharan Iyer.<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0Son and medical student Rishab Iyer, aged 23.<\/p>\n

8. Son and medical student Rudhr Iyer, aged 20.<\/p>\n

\"AThe Iyer family were on a Himalayan Glacier Adventure tour. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

9. Krishna Sharma,\u00a0aged 50.<\/p>\n

10. Umesh Sharma, aged 55.<\/p>\n

\"AThe son of Umesh and Krishna Sharma confirmed his parents were part of the missing Himalayan Glacier Adventure tour group. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

11. Husband\u00a0Venkatraman Balakrishnan, aged 52.<\/p>\n

12.\u00a0Wife Chitra Venkatraman, aged 46.<\/p>\n

\"AChitra Venkatraman and Venkatraman Balakrishnan were also with the Himalayan Glacier Adventure tour group. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

13.\u00a0Retired Melbourne engineer\u00a0Sampath Kumar, aged 61, who was also on the Himalayan Glacier Adventure tour.<\/p>\n

14.\u00a0Newcastle woman\u00a0Reshma Patel, aged 46, who had just completed a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash with the Isha Foundation.<\/p>\n

\"AReshma Patel’s husband boarded a plane headed to Nepal on Friday morning. He is intent on joining the search effort to find her. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

15.\u00a0Sydney woman\u00a0Sumi Adhikari, aged 41, who was travelling with the\u00a0Isha Foundation.<\/p>\n

\"ASumi Adhikari has been confirmed missing by her husband, Nava Pandey. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

16. Sydney man\u00a0Bharat Mangwani, had travelled to the region with the Sadhguru Isha Foundation.<\/p>\n

\"ABharat Mangwani is from Kellyville in Sydney’s north-west. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

17.\u00a0Brisbane father and member of the Royal Australian Air Force\u00a0Karan Bhardwaj, aged 40.<\/p>\n

\"AKaran Bhardwaj was travelling with the Kailash Journeys tour group when flash flooding hit on Wednesday morning. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

18.\u00a0Brisbane mum-of-two and and New Zealand citizen\u00a0Suhasini Reddy Kandimalla.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"ASuhasini Reddy Kandimalla was travelling with the Kailash Journeys tour group. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

19.\u00a0Queensland woman and mother-of-two\u00a0Kanagamah Sundrasan, who visited Mount Kailash to complete a pilgrimage.<\/p>\n

\"AQueensland woman Kanagamah Sundrasan was on a pilgrimage in the region when the flood hit. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

20.\u00a0New South Wales man\u00a0Michael Keats, who lives on the South Coast.<\/p>\n

\"AMichael Keats’ family members say they are “praying for a miracle for our beautiful Michael”. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

21.\u00a0Sydney man Uduy Shivamurthy, aged 50.<\/p>\n

22.\u00a0Sydney woman\u00a0Kripa Shivamurthy, aged 55.<\/p>\n

\"AKripa (left) and Uduy Shivamurthy (right) had travelled to the region on a pilgrimage to\u00a0Mount Kailash. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

The ABC is still working to verify the identities of the remaining 20 missing Australians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest reports show that 42 Australians are currently missing, with the breakdown identifying 36 in Nepal and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,7458,21,2285,17665,14215,1513,15340],"class_list":["post-83323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australians","tag-austrlia","tag-china","tag-dfat","tag-floods","tag-missing","tag-nepal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}