Bhubaneswar: A UK-based Indian family of four, including a woman from Ganjam district in Odisha, remains untraceable after devastating floods and landslides struck Nepal on Aug 26.The missing have been identified as Santosh Sahu (46), his wife Surabhi Manmath Padhy (44), and their children Spandan Sahu (18) and Syna Kumari Sahu (13). Surabhi’s family hails from Digapahandi in Ganjam district and Santosh is from Parvatipuram in Andhra Pradesh.The Surrey-based family was part of a group of 33 tourists who had travelled to Nepal for a guided Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrimage around a week before the disaster. Their last known location was Rasuwa, near the Nepal-China border.Ram Kumar Adhikari, owner of the travel company through which the group had booked the tour, said the tourists completed their formalities at the Nepal immigration office on Aug 25 and stayed there overnight.“Early on Aug 26, I received a call from our guide saying that they had crossed the Friendship Bridge on the Nepal-China border and entered the Chinese immigration office for passport stamping. The group’s WhatsApp group was also active around 8.30 am,” he said. Minutes later, however, the disaster struck, cutting off communication with the tourists and their guides. Adhikari said there has been no contact with the group since then.Three representatives of the families of some of the missing tourists are expected to reach Kathmandu on Sunday or Monday to assist in efforts to trace them. “We have also been trying to contact Chinese officials, who have told us that search operations are still underway,” Adhikari said.Surabhi’s family is anxiously awaiting information about her and her family. “We have no information about them either,” a family member said, requesting anonymity.Meanwhile, Pritish Panda, the nodal officer appointed by the state govt to assist people from Odisha stranded in Nepal, said the state govt was in constant touch with the Indian embassy in Nepal for updates on missing persons.“Nepal police have started identifying bodies. It has shared photographs of bodies for visual identification. We have forwarded the photographs to relatives of those reported missing from Odisha. If visual identification is not possible, the DNA profile of a first-degree relative will be prepared here and sent to the authorities through the Indian embassy for identification,” he said.