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Many are scrambling to book flights to Kathmandu, the Nepalese capital.\n On Friday, authorities in Nepal and China issued warnings about the risk of a second wave of flooding. Chinese authorities said an artificial lake had formed after a mudslide hit the Tibet-Nepal border, posing a risk of \u201csending flood waters downstream\u201d, according to state media. Nepal\u2019s disaster authority said a lake that had formed after debris blocked a river at the site was also rising and \u200cat risk of bursting.Barrier lake forms at base of mountains near Nepal borderRescuers were forced to suspend their search for survivors, while residents who had returned to Rasuwa were told to evacuate their homes. Many were seen fleeing up the hillsides to escape a possible surge in the river.In a video on YouTube, Jaggi Vasudev, known as Sadhguru, a spiritual leader who founded the nonprofit Isha Foundation, told followers at the foundation\u2019s camp at Saga in Tibet, China, that 80 members of an Isha group returning from Kailash Mansarovar, a high-altitude site in \u200cTibet revered by Hindus and Buddhists, were missing, including nine British people.Among them was Neetu Goyal Tiwari, 51. Her brother Naresh Goyal told the BBC that completing the pilgrimage was \u201cher dream\u201d.\n Neetu\u2019s nephew, Anmol Goyal, said she had been travelling with a friend, and that her last known location was at the immigration centre on the Tibet-Nepal border. He said she had been added to the Nepalese government\u2019s official list of missing persons.The family have been desperately phoning contacts in Nepal in an attempt to find her, though they increasingly believe her to still be in China. As many of them are based in India, it is difficult for them to obtain visas to search for her. Goyal said her husband and daughter remained in the UK for now.\u201cWe\u2019re not sure what the next second holds and what we should do from our end, because we\u2019re trying to reach everyone we can,\u201d he said. \u201cShe was a very fun-loving woman [and] really had a great heart. I really hope she comes back soon.\u201dThe Telegraph reported that an NHS psychiatrist, Pravin Atmakur, 54, was leading a group of 77 pilgrims on Isha Foundation\u2019s journey to Mount Kailash. The group\u2019s last-known location was an immigration centre in Timure, in the mudslide\u2019s direct path. \n His wife, Manjula Atmakur, who arrived in Kathmandu to search for him on Friday, told the newspaper she was disappointed by the British government\u2019s response to the disaster.Fishtail Tours and Travels confirmed Leena Bector, 53, from Slough, was among 27 travellers in its group who were unaccounted for.Family members of missing flood victims look at the list of missing people at the emergency ward of the Maharajgunj medical campus in Kathmandu. Photograph: Ritesh Shukla/GettyHer husband, Bhupesh Bector, told the Times he was booking the next flight to Kathmandu after the Home Office had failed to confirm whether Leena was on its missing persons list. \u201cEven if they find her today or tomorrow, I need to be there,\u201d he said. \u201cShe must be in trauma.\u201d\n Also missing are an A-level student from Surrey, Spandan Sahu, 18, and his father, Santosh Sahu, 46, the chief executive of the UK pharmaceutical technology company Charac; Spandan\u2019s mother, Surabhi Manmath Padhy, 44; and sister Syna Kumari Sahu, 13.Mahadev Semwal, a friend of Sahu\u2019s for about 15 years, said: \u201cI had WhatsApp communication with him on Monday: they were going to Nepal then Manasarovar in Tibet.\u201cWhen I heard on Wednesday about the flooding, I lost contact with him \u2013 when I am trying to message him it is getting delivered but not read.\u201cOur heart says they are safe somewhere. It\u2019s possible because the communication is jammed.\u201cBut when you see the videos, it is unbelievable. It feels so bad.\u201dAlso confirmed missing was Sarada Simkhada, a senior nurse from Dartford, Kent, who left for Nepal last Saturday on a religious journey.\n Deepesh Patel told the Press Association that his parents, Bipin Patel, 66, and Mala Patel, 60, from Coventry, were missing after flying to Nepal on 22 August for a pilgrimage. His brother Anant Patel told Sky News he was \u201cshocked\u201d at the lack of information on their whereabouts.\u2018Erased before their eyes\u2019: on the ground in decimated Nepal flood zone - The LatestVikram Kolagatla, from London, told the BBC he had not heard from his wife, Geetha Reddy. Reddy, who has two daughters aged 12 and 14, had been in Hotel Kailash in Rasuwagadh when the flooding hit.\u201cWe\u2019re not sure what to do. I have two little girls, and their schools are starting next week,\u201d Kolagatla added.Tatjana Phillips, from Folkestone in Kent, told the BBC she had not been able to contact her sister, Julija Jakovicka, who was attending a yoga and meditation retreat near the Nepal-Tibet border when flash flooding hit.Tanay Ranjan told the BBC he had not heard from his older brother Ankit Ranjan, 39, or sister-in-law, Ankita Chandra, 35, who had gone on a pilgrimage.Ranjan added: \u201cWe don\u2019t know if they crossed the border \u2026 We don\u2019t have a clue where they are. We are very much devastated.\u201dThe tour operator Alpine Eco Trek said it had been unable to make contact with a party of 12 Britons aged 13 to 65 who had booked a tour to Mount Kailash in Tibet, and were in the vicinity when the flash floods hit.Firefighters conduct search and rescue operations at a damaged area in Gyirong county, Tibet. Photograph: cnsphoto/ReutersSunil Amin, from Croydon in south London, shared with the Daily Mail the \u201chorrible, horrible feeling\u201d of repeatedly trying to phone his wife, Hema Amin, 63, who was on a pilgrimage with Alpine Eco Trek from Nepal to Tibet with her sister. \u201cI\u2019m devastated,\u201d he said.The Trekkers\u2019 Society, which organises tours across Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan, said nine UK nationals on a pilgrimage had gone missing. The organisation confirmed that four men and boys aged between 14 and 50 and five women aged 40 to 53 were unaccounted for.Himalayan Glacier US said it had lost contact with a group of 47 guests and staff, including two Britons, who were also on a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash, regarded as the spiritual home of the Hindu god Shiva.Location mapThe tour operator Kailash Journeys confirmed it had not been able to account for seven UK nationals \u2013 five women and two men aged between 18 and 55 \u2013 who were travelling with it.\n Leaf Holidays, which runs Himalayan treks and expeditions from Kathmandu, wrote in a Facebook post that its group of 55 travellers remained missing, including four British citizens, Tara and Babar Gurung and Thaneswar and Tejkumari Gurung, who have not been heard from since Tuesday.Twelve of the missing British citizens were on a tour to Mount Kailash led by Nabhi Nandan Das, a 64-year-old Hindu priest who works at the Sanatan Mandir and community centre in Surrey, the Telegraph reported. He is understood to have been leading 11 Britons on a tour that was due to visit Kailash and Lake Mansarovar, two Hindu holy sites in Tibet.People wait for information about their missing relatives outside a military camp in the Trishuli area of Nepal\u2019s Nuwakot district. Photograph: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/GettyPramod Poudel, who runs a Nepalese street food company in Sussex, told the Daily Mail his wife, Sumitra, mother, Tulisa, brother Pradip and uncle Madav were all missing. 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