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Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden confirms there are 33 missing UK citizens following the flash floods in Nepal on Wednesday. Mr McFadden says the government will do "everything they can" to help the Met police with the rescue effort. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Figures that have been released overnight by the Nepalese authorities suggest 160 people
00:05confirmed dead and many more than that missing including 33 UK citizens but I would counsel
00:12caution on those figures because it's a very dynamic situation it could be that those figures
00:18grow we can't be sure at this stage but there are certainly a number of UK citizens missing
00:24my colleague the Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has posted two numbers on the Foreign Office website
00:30and on social media where people can call for further information and we'll do everything we
00:36can to get the maximum information to the relatives of those missing and to help the Nepalese authorities
00:42with the rescue effort.

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