A specialised South African search and rescue team is set to deploy to a remote Nepali village yet to receive aid from the outside world after last week’s earthquake. The team, made up of urban search and rescue technicians and paramedics, will make the arduous journey by bus to the[…]
A week after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Nepal, police said the death toll from the disaster has climbed to at least 6,841, with the government ruling out finding more survivors despite relatives refusing to give up hope. “We are trying our best in rescue and relief work but now[…]
Humanitarian workers from Gift of the Givers (GOTG) have a monumental task on their hands as they try to bring South Africans stuck in quake-ravaged Katmandu to safety, while assisting in the search and rescue missions on the ground. GOTG’s first team arrived in Nepal on Thursday with a group[…]
Young men stood on the ruins of a temple in Bhaktapur’s old city digging vigorously in the dirt and rubble with bare hands and shovels. Whenever they unearthed a large stone carving on Thursday afternoon, others quickly crowded around to help lift out the heavy object. One man shouted, “We[…]
A teenage boy has been pulled, dazed and dusty, from the wreckage of a seven-storey Kathmandu building that collapsed around him five days ago when a powerful earthquake shook Nepal. News of the rescue came on Thursday as the first supplies of food aid began reaching remote, earthquake-shattered mountain villages[…]
A falling building, shaking ground and people running in all directions can be seen in a new video that has emerged online showing some minutes of the devastating earthquake that struck Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, and the surrounding area. he footage shows a busy road in Kathmandu. Then suddenly the ground[…]
South African climbers are still uncertain about whether they will tackle the highest peak in the world after an earthquake in Nepal left 5 000 dead, and resulted in an avalanche at the mountain. Durban based climber Sean Wisedale and his teammates were at Mount Everest base camp when the[…]
Pawan Tandukar sat outdoors as a group of volunteers in a central Kathmandu neighbourhood prepared dinner at a makeshift cooking station. Men and women chopped vegetables and tofu at two table tennis tables and heated large cooking pots. After the devastating earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25 and killed[…]
Some 50 South Africans are currently in quake-devastated Nepal but this figure may increase as the Department of International Relations (DIRCO) works to account for more SA citizens. “We don’t have a specific figure because information is difficult with people in Nepal due to the breakdown in communication,” said DIRCO[…]
Nepal’s prime minister has warned that the number of people killed in the country’s worst earthquake in decades could reach 10,000. Sushil Koirala’s comment on Tuesday came as rescuers in Nepal were struggling to reach remote communities. With the UN estimating eight million people have been hit by the disaster, Koirala[…]
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