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Families balance hope and despair in race to find survivors in Nepal as 41 Australians still missing

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In Kathmandu, The Guardian reports families are searching for answers as authorities work to identify disaster victims, with forty-one Australians still unaccounted for. Nepalese officials are hanging photos of the unidentified deceased on the walls of a teaching hospital while collecting DNA samples and preparing for burials as morgue space runs out. The Guardian's report doesn't include further detail on what caused the disaster.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/30/families-ba...

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