Mehraab Nazir who was aged 49, and his son died at the scene of the landslide whilst hiking on Australia’s well-known mountain, The Blue Mountain, The wife Anastasia remains in serious condition while the other son aged 14 is stable after his surgery.
Mr. Nazir was a partner at a law firm based in Singapore, where he and his family moved over a decade ago.
The firm Mehraab worked at said he was a “dear friend and colleague”
Watson Farley & Williams said they would be “remembering and honoring” him.
The alarm was raised on Monday afternoon by the family’s 15-year-old daughter after the landslide killed her father and younger brother, leaving her mother and older brother critically injured.
The teenage girl was said to be “extremely distressed” and is being kept in hospital under observation.
The two bodies were collected from the mountains, near the popular walking spot of Wentworth Falls, about 60 miles (96km) from Sydney, at about 09:30 local time on Tuesday.
Graham Chapman, the tour guide said “This beautiful family from England were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, it’s so sad, maybe another 50 meters on either side or a delay during the day, this wouldn’t have happened.”
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