UK's Tulshi Patel traces mother and aunt's last location in Nepal through TikTok video: 'Waiting to see a tick in WhatsApp messages'

Sisters Hema Sunil Amin, left, and Hemangini Jitendra Patel went missing in Nepal floods. (Phoro: BBC) Tulshi Patel, a Pharmacist from Milton Keynes, England, has been looking for her mother, Hemangini Jitendra Patel, and her aunt, Hema Sunil Amin, who went on a pilgrimage to Tibet. Patel last spoke to her mother and aunt on Monday, received a photo of them on Tuesday and their last known location came from a GPS signal from the tour group at a place called Friendship Bridge at the Nepal-China border. The two women have not been traced since the deadly flood but Patel said she did her own deep-dive research and found a TikTok video that showed her mother and aunt and three other people from the tour at the border waiting to cross. She said the video was probably made by a local tour guide before the flood.“It was Wednesday morning, just before 6am, Nepal time," Patel said to LBC News, hoping that her mother and aunt were probably somewhere safe and would see their messages once there is signal.The flood is believed to have occurred after a magnitude 5.2 seismic event near the border between Nepal and China on Wednesday at 8.37am local time, according to the US Geological Survey.“Th...