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An Ottawa woman found safe, but injured, after the devastating earthquake in Nepal says not enough is being done to help the victims of the disaster.
“Where are the helicopters? Where are the supplies? Please spread the word — The survivors of Langtang area are suffering,” Faye Kennedy, 32, wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday. The post has so far been shared almost 3,000 times.
Kennedy was hiking in Nepal’s popular Langtang National Park, about 130 kilometres north of the capital Kathmandu, when the devastating quake struck on Saturday. The official toll so far is more than 4,600 people dead, with another 9,000 injured. Both of those figures are expected to rise.
She was with two friends, but because she was injured Kennedy was airlifted to Kathmandu for treatment ahead of her companions. The injuries were minor, according to a release from her brother-in-law Justin Piché.
Her friends, Erland Nylend of Norway and Nisha Nudha of Nepal, were still waiting above Langtang village, “which has been absolutely flattened by the avalanche.”
And Kennedy said there are hundreds of foreign and local casualties with them.
“There have been 6 helicopter evacuations of 6 people at a time. The helicopters have brought nothing to the survivors waiting to be evacuated — firewood and food is running out, there is no roof and hypothermia will set in soon if supplies are not brought in. They are in a desperate situation,” she wrote in her post.
A military aircraft carrying a Disaster Assistance Response Team and other personnel was expected to arrive in Nepal on Wednesday, said Defence Minister Jason Kenney. But it would depend on the condition of the airport.
In Ottawa, Zaphod Beeblebrox will host a benefit concert on May 8 for victims of the quake. “All proceeds from this benefit will go to Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Canadian Red Cross,” the popular nightclub’s Facebook post says.
And another Ottawa man hiking in Nepal, Sam Caldbick, is safe for now, according to a tweet from his friend Cody Walter of Sudbury, Ont.
Meanwhile, the family of Gatineau man Eric Lauzier continued to wait for news.
Lauzier’s father Robert said he last heard from Eric on Friday, via a Facebook message.
He believes his son was travelling not far from Kathmandu at the time. A Facebook post on April 16 showed him in the Annapurna region, about a seven-hour drive from Kathmandu.
Lauzier is on a site that has been established to help track people reported missing in the quake.
And Ottawa resident Sarah Brandt was trying to locate her brother, Sai Jaya Raj Anthony, 37, a Malaysian national. Anthony was last heard from on Facebook, where he posted pictures of himself with his trekking permit for Langtang.
“We don’t know where he was at the time of the earthquake and are in total information blackout,” she wrote in a press release.
Brandt says she hasn’t been able to reach Malaysian authorities.
She said that Anthony wasn’t an experienced hiker and that this was his first time undertaking such a long route.
Here is Faye Kennedy’s post:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...t=a.10151239083661680.448872.503746679&type=1
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“Where are the helicopters? Where are the supplies? Please spread the word — The survivors of Langtang area are suffering,” Faye Kennedy, 32, wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday. The post has so far been shared almost 3,000 times.
Kennedy was hiking in Nepal’s popular Langtang National Park, about 130 kilometres north of the capital Kathmandu, when the devastating quake struck on Saturday. The official toll so far is more than 4,600 people dead, with another 9,000 injured. Both of those figures are expected to rise.
She was with two friends, but because she was injured Kennedy was airlifted to Kathmandu for treatment ahead of her companions. The injuries were minor, according to a release from her brother-in-law Justin Piché.
Her friends, Erland Nylend of Norway and Nisha Nudha of Nepal, were still waiting above Langtang village, “which has been absolutely flattened by the avalanche.”
And Kennedy said there are hundreds of foreign and local casualties with them.
“There have been 6 helicopter evacuations of 6 people at a time. The helicopters have brought nothing to the survivors waiting to be evacuated — firewood and food is running out, there is no roof and hypothermia will set in soon if supplies are not brought in. They are in a desperate situation,” she wrote in her post.
A military aircraft carrying a Disaster Assistance Response Team and other personnel was expected to arrive in Nepal on Wednesday, said Defence Minister Jason Kenney. But it would depend on the condition of the airport.
In Ottawa, Zaphod Beeblebrox will host a benefit concert on May 8 for victims of the quake. “All proceeds from this benefit will go to Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Canadian Red Cross,” the popular nightclub’s Facebook post says.
And another Ottawa man hiking in Nepal, Sam Caldbick, is safe for now, according to a tweet from his friend Cody Walter of Sudbury, Ont.
Meanwhile, the family of Gatineau man Eric Lauzier continued to wait for news.
Lauzier’s father Robert said he last heard from Eric on Friday, via a Facebook message.
He believes his son was travelling not far from Kathmandu at the time. A Facebook post on April 16 showed him in the Annapurna region, about a seven-hour drive from Kathmandu.
Lauzier is on a site that has been established to help track people reported missing in the quake.
And Ottawa resident Sarah Brandt was trying to locate her brother, Sai Jaya Raj Anthony, 37, a Malaysian national. Anthony was last heard from on Facebook, where he posted pictures of himself with his trekking permit for Langtang.
“We don’t know where he was at the time of the earthquake and are in total information blackout,” she wrote in a press release.
Brandt says she hasn’t been able to reach Malaysian authorities.
She said that Anthony wasn’t an experienced hiker and that this was his first time undertaking such a long route.
Here is Faye Kennedy’s post:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...t=a.10151239083661680.448872.503746679&type=1
查看原文...
