British aid worker mistakenly listed as Nepal disaster survivor

At least 1,050 people confirmed dead across Nepal and Tibet, over 4,000 missing including 36 British nationals, with 93,000 directly affected by the disaster.

In the midst of one of the Himalayas' most devastating disasters — a glacier collapse that has claimed over a thousand lives and left four thousand souls unaccounted for — a British aid worker who came to give found himself briefly recorded as one who had been saved. Alastair Chambers, 45, had spent days delivering supplies to flood-isolated villages along the Trishuli river before returning to Kathmandu by helicopter, where authorities mistook his arrival for a rescue and placed his name on an official survivor list. The error was small and quickly corrected, but it illuminated something larg

British aid worker mistakenly listed as Nepal disaster survivor

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