Kolkata, Aug. 27 -- Families of tourists from West Bengal and Tamil Nadu who are stranded in Nepal amid a flood situation are anxiously waiting for their safe return and have approached authorities seeking information about their loved ones.

In West Bengal's Hooghly district, worried families of tourists from Arambagh said they have been praying for the safety of their relatives after a tourist bus carrying around a dozen passengers from the area got stranded in Nepal.

The tourists had travelled to Nepal on August 24 in a bus from different parts of Arambagh. They are currently staying at Chetan Park in Pokhara valley, around 120 kilometres away from the disaster-affected area.

Arnab Kumar Datta and Krikona Dutta, whose mother and moth...