Mehrab Nazir was hiking with his family in the Blue Mountains when they were caught in a landslide, killing him and his younger son
Tributes have been paid to a British lawyer who died in a landslide with his nine-year-old son while hiking in Australia’s Blue Mountains. Mehraab Nazir, 49, died with his son at the scene. His wife, Anastasia, remains in critical condition while another son, aged 14, is stable after surgery.
Mr Mehraab Nazir was a partner at a law firm working in Singapore, where his family moved more than a decade ago. His firm said he was a “dear friend and colleague”. Watson Farley & Williams said they would be “remembering and honouring” 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.
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The two bodies were recovered 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.
Tour guide Graham Chapman said landslides are common in the Blue Mountains and have been made more likely by recent heavy rain.
“This beautiful family from England were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, it’s so sad,” he said.
“Maybe another 50 meters on either side or a delay during the day, this wouldn’t have happened.”