earthquake

Death toll from latest Nepal earthquake rises

The death toll from another powerful earthquake centred in Nepal has passed 80, authorities said early on Wednesday, with reports still coming in of landslides and further casualties. Some 65 people were killed in Nepal alone by the 7.4-magnitude quake and aftershocks which hit after midday on Tuesday, authorities said,[…]

Read »

CPUT lecturers gives ground report from Nepal

Three lecturers from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s (CPUT) Health and Wellness faculty were part of the 23 man strong Gift of the Givers (GOTG) team, who more than two weeks ago travelled to earthquake hit Nepal to assist with rescue operations. The small landlocked state was hit by[…]

Read »

GOTG to continue aid following second Nepal quake

South African humanitarian mission Gift of the Givers will continue to supply aid to earthquake victims in Nepal after a second earthquake rocked the country on Tuesday. A 7.4 magnitude quake, with an epicentre near Mount Everest, caused several buildings in the capital Kathmandu to collapse. Gift of the Givers[…]

Read »

Powerful new earthquake hits devastated Nepal

A deadly magnitude 7.3 earthquake has struck Nepal, two weeks after a devastating quake killed more than 8,000 people in the Himalayan nation, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) has reported. Officials said so far, at least 42 people had been killed and 1,117 injured in the new quake in[…]

Read »

3 South Africans may still be missing in Nepal

Nepal’s Armed Police Force (APF) has revealed that as many as three South Africans may still be missing in earthquake-ravaged Nepal, with the official death toll rising to 7 493. APF Deputy Inspector General Baburam Pandey said that according to their statistics from a central co-ordination centre, the three were[…]

Read »

Aid workers struggle to access Kathmandu villages

A South African couple were rescued and have found safety with Gift of the Givers (GOTG) in Kathmandu on Saturday after going for days without shelter or food. Speaking to VOC from Nepal, the relief agency’s founder, Dr Imtiyaaz Sooliman said when Mike Sherman and Kate Ahrends were rescued they[…]

Read »

Nepal relief effort a duty to humanity: SA surgeon

A Pietermaritzburg surgeon and veteran missionary sees his work in quake-struck Nepal as his obligation to the human race. Northdale orthopaedic surgeon Liven Meneses-Turino, part of a specialist medical team from Gift of the Givers, said it was a calling. “I have been a missionary from the time I was[…]

Read »

Four rescued as Nepal death toll soars

Rescuers have pulled a 101-year-old man and three women alive from his ruined home a week after Nepal’s earthquake claimed at least 7,250 lives, as the government warned that the death toll will climb “much higher”. Funchu Tamang was rescued from the rubble of his house with only minor injuries[…]

Read »
WhatsApp WhatsApp us
Wait a sec, saving restore vars.