Dozens of US and Canadian Citizens Missing After Nepal Floods
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Flash floods hit Nepal. Many people are missing now. Dozens of them are from the United States and Canada.
A flash flood is a very fast flood. It happens very quickly, often after heavy rain.
Hundreds of people are still missing. This means nobody knows where they are.
The governments of the US and Canada are watching the situation closely. They want to find their citizens.
A citizen is a person who belongs to a country. The US and Canada have citizens in Nepal.
Authorities are people who have power to help, like the government or police. They are checking on the missing people.
Right now, there is no more news about the missing people. We do not know if they are safe.
This is a serious situation. Many families are worried about their missing family members.
Vocabulary9 words
- flash flood
- a flood that happens very fast, often after heavy rain
- missing
- not able to be found; nobody knows where a person is
- citizen
- a person who officially belongs to a country
- authorities
- people who have power to control or help, like government
- monitoring
- watching something carefully over time
- situation
- what is happening now
- unaccounted for
- when we don't know where someone is
- dozens
- many groups of twelve; a lot of
- flooding
- when water covers land that is usually dry
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Answer key
1. A flash flood 2. Dozens of citizens 3. True
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