She finally returned home on Sunday, where she was met by her husband, singer Parthiv Gohil, and their daughter Nirvi. Manasi Parekh is back in Mumbai after surviving a terrifying ordeal during her Kailash Mansarovar Yatra. The actor was stranded near the Nepal-China border after flash floods and landslides hit the region.
The extent of the destruction has also made the identification of victims particularly difficult. Several bodies were swept away by the powerful floodwaters and recovered far from where the disaster struck. Figures released by Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Authority show that 933 of those missing are linked to regional hydropower projects. Another 592 are foreign nationals, while 127 are Nepali citizens who were travelling with foreign groups. Rescue teams have been working across the affected areas, with close to 20,000 security personnel deployed so far. Ground operations have resulted in 8,730 rescues, while helicopters have carried out 363 sorties and evacuated 3,081 people.
Authorities said some remains were “found as mutilated, partial or severed remains, making visual identification extraordinarily difficult”.
The last 3-4 days have been overwhelming and getting out of China and reaching the Nepal border felt like winning a war”. Hum 24 ghanto se bach gaye… it could have been us. Manasi revealed that the group was supposed to visit the same building for immigration just a day later.
As she looked back on the past few days, Manasi thanked everyone who had reached out to her and prayed for her safety. She wrote on Instagram, “Thank you so much for all the love, messages, calls and prayers. “I can never forget this experience. As expected, we were completely unprepared. Anything could have happened. A structure we counted on as a big, sturdy building was literally gone in moments”. The incident became even more frightening as how narrowly they had escaped being at the site when the disaster struck. Hum wahan to jaane wale thhe, ab woh building hi nahi raha. Poora ka poora gaon khatam,” she added.
She said making it out of China and reaching Nepal felt like a battle in itself. Speaking exclusively to Hindustan Times, Manasi called the experience her “second lease on life”. She said the group had no idea just how dangerous the situation would become and were simply not prepared for something of this magnitude.
“We were slated to go to that building on Thursday for the immigration; we easily could have been inside.
