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- A week after floods in Nepal killed over 1,000 people, six people with family roots in Kerala remain missing, according to NoRKA Roots.
- Of the 52 people who registered for help with its helpline, 44 have returned home, one is safe in Nepal, and one is due to return on Friday, while the six untraceable include four Australian citizens, a British citizen, and 59-year-old American citizen Krishnakumar Raghavan, who were reportedly near the China-Nepal border when the disaster struck.
- Nepal has put in place procedures for identifying and handing over the bodies of foreigners, with the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu coordinating repatriation once relatives identify the deceased from images and descriptions on the Nepal Police website.
- Since many unidentified bodies have been temporarily buried, Nepal is arranging DNA matching, and relatives can submit test results or blood samples through official Nepal Police and Indian Embassy email addresses and helplines.
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- Whether the six missing people, including Krishnakumar Raghavan, are located by authorities still searching for them
- How many of the unidentified bodies are matched to relatives through the DNA profiling process offered by Nepal
- Updates from the Nepal Foreign Ministry on recovery and missing figures, currently more than 951 bodies recovered and about 4,200 people missing
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