MYSURU/MANDYA:As many as 19 people from Mysuru city on a trip to Nepal organised by Karnataka Kisan Yatri Seva Sangha, a travel agency, are safe and are on their way back to India.
Lalita, manager of the travel agency, said that the 19 tourists from the city were part of a 45-member group that left Bengaluru on a 16-day trip to Nepal.
She said the group, which had left Kathmandu at 6 am on Saturday, had reached halfway to the border when she contacted them last around 2 pm. “At 4 pm I got a call saying all are safe and will reach the Indian border in a few hours,” she added.
Nine among the 19-member team from the city belong to a family from Bogadi area in the city. According to their relatives, they had reached Kathmandu on Friday and had informed them about the same.
Meanwhile, Nepalese students of different colleges in the city huddled into one of their houses in Bogadi to make enquiries about their parents and others.
Rahul Karn, a representative of Nepal students, said parents and relatives of all 21 Nepal students are safe.
“All of us spoke to our parents and they are all safe. We will be in touch with them continuously,” he further added. Deputy Commissioner C Shikha confirmed that 19 people from the city who have been on a tour to Nepal are safe and added that she does not know if there are any others from the city who are stranded.
She requested people to provide details to the control room at 1077 if they get further news about people from the city who are in Nepal.
Tension in Mandya
Meanwhile, tension gripped Haralahalli village in Pandavapura taluk and Visweshwaranagar in Mandya town as 35 people from the district who had gone to Nepal remained unreachable on phone.
They had left for Nepal through Kamadhenu Travels agency based in Pandavapura on a 25-day trip and had reached Nepal on Friday.
According to a Haralahalli resident, one of the tourists, Ramesh, had last called his brother in the village on Friday.
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