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The number of people killed in the Nepal flood disaster stands at 676. Officials say more than 2,400 people have been rescued, but thousands remain missing, including at least 41 Australians. Many survivors are taking shelter in temporary disaster centres.

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00:02We're at a sports hall that has been converted into a government-run shelter.
00:08We've just seen two huge trucks of people turn up here but we've been told there's not
00:14going to be enough room for them to sleep and they're probably going to be moved again.
00:18A lot of children are here from deep within that disaster site in Rasua.
00:24Many of them don't even know that their parents perished in that flood.
00:28We've also just seen some devastating scenes of people who came here even from overseas.
00:35They came to see if their loved ones had survived and they've just found out that they died.
00:40One woman lives in Malaysia, her husband and her daughter live in Rasua,
00:44that district that was struck first by that flood.
00:47She's just found out that both of them died in that flood.
00:51These are true stories of devastation and it's really difficult to understand
00:55how any of these people are ever going to go home.
00:58We've been told from people who were on the ground that when people arrived to see if their home had
01:04survived,
01:04they couldn't even locate where their home used to be.
01:08For people here who survived the flood, there is little left behind.
01:12Many arrived with just the clothes on their backs and the memories of devastation.
01:16This teenager says she's struggling to sleep because she lost her friend.
01:23It's difficult to sleep. It's so congested. There are lots of people here and I miss my friends.
01:29I saw people get washed away, so it's difficult to sleep.
01:34I don't know what to do, but we have to stay here in a safe place. We have nothing left.
01:44NGOs here tell us that family tracing is underway.
01:47There are social workers trying to find extended family for the children that turned up here alone.
01:53But that's not going to be a fast process.
01:56And until then, they say places like this is what they'll call home.
02:02It has broken and valued.
02:03It's gotta be an asylum in a safe place and many reservations.
02:05We have96 folks about their homes.

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