The kin returned home Wednesday night after their two weeks long search yielded no result. "The sons returned empty handed from India. Still, the situation of the nine pilgrims including my brother and sister-in-law are still unknown," said Eknath Chalise, brother of missing Kirtinath Chalise. He criticized the government of Nepal, Nepali embassy in India and police for not doing enough to search for the missing. [break]
Among the nine missing, three people -- Kirtinath Chalise, 72; his wife Jamuna Chalise, 70; and their son Harischandra, 44 -- are from the same family. The remaining six missing are Hira Devi Chalise, her husband Dev Narayan Chalise, and sister Ramkala Poudel, Netra Poudel and his wife Bishnukala Poudel, and Ishwara Lamsal of the same locality. They had left for pilgrimage on June 2 and were preparing to return home after visiting Kedarnath.
"We searched at each and every possible place in India but to no avail," a dejected Moti Chandra Chalise said. A group of seven including Moti had gone to search for the missing family members in India.
"First we reached Haridwar and informed about the incident to the police there. We scanned through the list of rescued persons but could not trace our relatives," Moti added.
They said that the Nepali embassy in New Delhi did not provide any help in the search for the missing. "Instead of providing information to us, the embassy wanted to glean information from us as they were asking who we met, and where did we look for in the search, what we saw and if there were any Nepali people stranded ," they said.
According to Moti, the mobile call details showed that the missing people had last called home while they were heading toward Kedarnath.
The disheartened kin returned home leaving the address and the photographs of their relatives at Deharadun Rescue center, which informed that they should wait for the DNA report of the people killed in the flood. Indian government had already said that the Uttarakhand food toll crossed over four thousand.
Man presumed dead in Indian flood returns home
Rukum: A person who was presumed dead in the Uttarakhand flood returned home to see his family members conducting his 13th day ritual of his death. Dilli Bahadur Oli, who was thought to have died in a landslide in Uttarakhanda, where he was working for the last four months, arrived home in Jhula VDC in western Rukum on Thursday.
Oli´s mourning family members were stunned to see him alive. The somber mood of the family quickly turned into joy while Oli was at a loss for words to see his sons performing his death rituals and wife wearing white in mourning. Oli and the family members sobbed their hearts out while his wife held on to him tightly.
"I returned home to ensure my family that I am still alive. But, I could not believe my eyes to see them in mourning," said Oli. The neighbours and villagers feted his return Thursday.
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