A week after flash floods and landslides devastated the Nepal-China border region, five New Zealanders remain unaccounted for amid a disaster that has claimed more than 750 lives and left 3,000 others missing. New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has described conditions on the ground as 'bleak,' a word that speaks not to despair but to the slow, difficult work of searching terrain remade by catastrophe. In the space between circulating rescue reports and verified facts, families wait — and a government marshals what resources it can, pledging $2 million in aid and deploying con
Five Kiwis still missing in Nepal disaster as death toll exceeds 750
Five New Zealanders missing; 750+ confirmed dead and 3,000+ people missing across the disaster region in Nepal.