Family members of several people from Karnataka who are in Nepal are concerned about the safety of their kin. While some have information that their relatives are safe, others have been unable to speak to them with phones not working.
Thirty-one pilgrims, who were visiting Nepal as part of a tour organised by Veerabhadreshwara Package Tours of Kalenahalli, Tumakuru, are safe at Sunoli on the Nepal-India border. They are from Gauribidanur (Chickballapur), Tumakuru, and Dobbspet (Bengaluru Rural).
Tour organiser Renuka Prasad said the pilgrims were waiting in a queue to go to Manakamana temple via a ropeway when they felt the tremors and a landslide occurred at the other end of the ropeway. Frightened, they left Pokhra on Sunday to reach Sunoli. They were expected to reach Delhi on Monday, he said.
He said, “By the grace of god, they are safe and have food and water.”
In Bengaluru, Sandeep is worried. His mother, Nagaratnamma (56), officer in the Women and Child Development Department, and his father had gone to Nepal on a pilgrimage along with a group. “I am worried about them. I hope they are alright.”
The family of 42-year-old C. Rajarao, who is part of a 30-member group from a solar panel manufacturing company which is Nepal on business, is anxious. He is stranded at Seetajal, 25 km from Kathmandu. His family has no news of him since Saturday.
Similarly, there is no news yet of Lakshmana Shetty and his wife, Mangalamma, from Pandavapura, Mandya district, were to have returned from Nepal on Saturday. Swamy, Mr. Shetty’s friend, said the couple has no mobile phone.
