Brit dad and son, 9, killed in horror landslide were on family 'holiday of a lifetime'

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hospital. The Nazir family of five has been tragically torn apart by a natural disaster at a popular Australian tourist attraction as their unharmed teenage daughter frantically called an air ambulance to save them.Mehraab Nazir, 49, and his youngest child were crushed to death by falling rocks in the Blue Mountains, north of Sydney, as the family were trekking through the remote Wentworth Pass on Monday.Australia's Triple-0 emergency service responded to the traumatised 15-year-old girl's call at 1:30pm by sending a helicopter to airlift her surviving mum Anastasia, 50, and brother, 14, to hospital in a critical condition.Mr Nazir landed a top position as a finance lawyer and partner at a Sydney advisory firm and took the family from London down under 10 years ago.

On Monday, the massive rescue effort involved paramedics being winched down by helicopter to hoist the family up through the trees from "extremely dangerous, unstable" terrain.The surviving mum and son had to be sedated in the rescue before being treated for serious head and abdominal injuries, NSW Ambulance Acting Chief Superintendent Stewart Clarke said.Then came the saddening job of recovering the bodies of Mr Nazir and his nine-year-old son's as the daughter left the scene on foot and was later treated for shock in hospital.