The British man who died alongside his nine-year-old son after being caught in a landslide in Australia has been identified as Mehraab Nazir, Sky News understands.

The 49-year-old and his son were killed in a remote part of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales on Monday while on a family holiday.

Mr Nazir’s wife, Anastasia Nazir, was rescued from the scene alongside their 15-year-old daughter and 14-year-old son.

Ms Nazir, 50, and the teenage boy suffered suffered “significant head and abdominal injuries”.

She has since undergone surgery and remains in an intensive care unit in a critical condition, local police confirmed.

The family’s son is out of the ICU and in a stable condition, while the daughter remains in hospital under observation.

The five were holidaying in Australia, police said, some of the four million tourists drawn to the Blue Mountains National Park each year.

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Weeks of wet weather in Sydney preceded the landslip, leaving the area “extremely dangerous and unstable” for rescuers, Mr Clarke said.

Emergency services were called to Wentworth Pass around 1.40pm, after being contacted by someone who was “in or near the group”, he added.

Police helicopters, local officers and a specialist rescue team were deployed to the location in dense bushland, about a 90-minute walk from the car park.

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