Bardiya/kanchanpur, Aug. 11 -- Relatives who travelled to Uttarakhand's Pauri Garhwal district to search for missing Nepalis in last Wednesday's deadly landslide in Bankura village have returned home after failing to locate their whereabouts. After five days of combing the debris and surrounding terrain, they abandoned hope of finding survivors.

The missing include Narendra Khadka of ward 5 of Madhuwan Municipality in Bardiya district; his wife Sandhya; their 18-month-old son Roman; Amrita Pariyar of the same ward; and Subash Damai of ward 4 of Gulariya Municipality. All were wage workers involved in road construction when the landslide struck.

Narendra's father Chudamani and brother-in-law Navin Thapa reached Bankura soon after the dis...