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Kathmandu, Nepal (AFP) — An Australian and a Dutch mountaineer have died of altitude sickness after summitting Mount Everest, expedition organizers said, the latest deaths to hit the Himalayan climbing season. The Australian climber was on her way down from Camp 4 to Camp 3 when she fell ill and died on Saturday afternoon, Pasang Phurba Sherpa, a board director at Seven Summit Treks, told AFP Saturday. “After reaching the summit yesterday she said she […]
Langtang in Nepal is now little more than a graveyard. The once tranquil mountain village was obliterated last April when a massive earthquake shattered a glacier, raining tonnes of ice, snow and rock down into the valley below, where hundreds of bodies still lie buried. (Courtesy AFPTV)
Kathmandu, Nepal (AFP)—Emergency workers have found the bodies of all 23 passengers and crew killed when their plane crashed into a mountainside in western Nepal, the army said Thursday. The police and army returned to the crash site at first light after abandoning recovery efforts late Wednesday due to bad weather in the remote Himalayan district where the Twin Otter turboprop aircraft came down. The site in Myagdi district is around 16,000 feet (4,900 meters) […]
Kathmandu, Nepal (AFP)—A passenger plane went missing in a mountainous area of Nepal early Wednesday with 21 people on board, the airline said. Tara Air said rescue helicopters had been deployed to search for the Twin Otter aircraft, which lost contact with air traffic control eight minutes after it left the western town of Pokhara in the morning. “A plane that took off from Pokhara for Jomsom this morning is out of contact,” Tara Air […]
KATMANDU, Nepal (Eagle News) – Severe rains caused landslides in Nepal which results in dozens dead and missing although there are still no exact figures reported. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Dexter Magno, Vince Alvin Villarin) https://youtu.be/tQ2U5wR8e60
MAY 13 (Reuters) — Nepalese woke up on Wednesday (May 13) after a night sleeping outdoors a day following a second powerful earthquake hit the Himalayan nation, bringing down buildings weakened by the first disaster and killing at least 66 people, including 17 in neighbouring India and one in Chinese Tibet. A 7.3 earthquake shook the region on Tuesday (May 12), the strongest since a massive magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck on April 25. Most of […]
May 13 (Reuters) — A second earthquake struck Nepal on Tuesday (May 12) causing a large landslide in the north of the country in Dhunche. Huge amounts of rocks and mud crashed down the mountain, scattering debris over the buildings at its base and sending plumes of dust into the air. It was unknown if the slide had caused any casualties. The 7.3 magnitude earthquake has killed at least 40 people and left over a […]
MAY 5 — The prime minister of Nepal asked the international community for support for reconstruction after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit the said nation. Said support is needed for the rebuilding of infrastructure and business establishments. Nepal is considered as one of the poorest countries in the world. The death toll of said earthquake has reached more than 7,000. (Kathmandu, Nepal)
MAY 1 (Reuters) — The devastating earthquake in Nepal has drawn high attention from all over the world and several of the UN agencies are offering their help for its recovery. In the past two days, the World Food Program and its affiliate corporations donated over 100 tons of food to the worst-hit districts while the UN Children’s Fund delivered nearly 30 tons of supplies, including tents, water purification tablets, and first aid and hygiene […]
MAY 1 (Reuters) — Five days after Nepal was hit by a massive quake, measuring 7.9 on Richter scale, residents in the Sindhupal district were on Thursday (April 30) still sifting through the rubble as the death toll continues to rise. Sindhupal, home to more than 300,000 people, is the worst affected in the Himalayan nation with almost 2,000 deaths being reported. The government still has little precise information where the damage is most extensive […]
APRIL 30 (Reuters) — Fifteen-year old earthquake survivor, Pema Lama, was rescued in Kathmandu on Thursday (April 30), six days after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal. He was found amongst the rubble of the collapsed Hilton Hotel, and quickly extricated by Nepal’s Armed Police Force. As the death toll on Thursday neared 5,500, rescue teams toiled in pouring rain in the debris left by Saturday’s (April 25) deadly quake, as officials said the chance of […]
APRIL 28 (Reuters) — Shock turned to anger in Nepal on Tuesday (April 28) as some of the tens of thousands stricken by a devastating earthquake, which killed more than 4,000 people, expressed frustration at what they said was their government’s slow response to the crisis. Many people across Nepal slept in the open for a third night, their homes either flattened or threatened by tremors that spread more fear among a traumatized population. In […]
