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MANY residents of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu tried to leave the city on Tuesday (April 28) amid continuous tremors and after losing their homes in the weekend quake. People tried to get out of the city by every possible means. The surging demand has led transport prices to shoot up drastically. “We are not getting tickets in any vehicles. All the operators say whenever the vehicle moves, we’ll place you in that. They want 2,000 to […]
NINE drug traffickers held emotional farewell meetings with their families at an Indonesian prison on Tuesday, after Jakarta rejected last-ditch pleas from around the world for clemency and ordered their mass execution to proceed within hours. “I won’t see him again,” said Raji Sukumaran, the mother of an Australian who will go before a firing squad along with a fellow countryman and convicts from Nigeria, Brazil, the Philippines and Indonesia. “They’re going to take him […]
APRIL 28 (Reuters) — Family of Mary Jane Veloso, drug trafficker facing death penalty in Indonesia, arrived at Wijaya Pura Port on Tuesday (April 28), as they prepared to bid farewell with their loved one. The family was on the way to the prison island of Nusakambangan as executions of nine drug convicts, mostly foreigners, entered its final countdown. Ambulances with coffins inside arrived at the Nusakambangan prison island in central Java, where the nine […]
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 […]
APRIL 28 (Reuters) — Activities in Cilacap, where the prison island of Nusakambangan is located, remained normal on Tuesday (April 28) despite increased police presence at the port area as Indonesia waited for the imminent executions of convicted drug traffickers. Indonesia has informed two Australians, one Nigerian and four other death-row drug convicts that they will be executed in a matter of days, possibly as soon as Tuesday, despite last-minute appeals for clemency from the […]
The lawyer of a Filipina woman on death row in Indonesia for drug trafficking says her execution could happen soon, as her family paid her a visit on Sunday (April 26). This was the second visit to Nusakambangan island, a maximum high security prison in Indonesia, by Mary Jane Veloso’s family since she was sent to the island on Friday (April 24). Veloso’s lawyer, Edre U Olalia, while waiting for the permit to cross by […]
A STRONG earthquake aftershock hit India and Nepal on Sunday (April 26), shaking buildings in northern and eastern parts of India, and triggering an avalanche in the Himalayas. The United States Geological Survey said the tremor was 6.7 magnitude, less than the 7.9 quake that struck the region on Saturday (April 25) killing more than 2,200 people. People vacated offices and residential buildings and ran out in Lucknow city in northern Uttar Pradesh state. “It […]
NEPAL’S Home Ministry said that the death toll due to the devastating 7.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal on Saturday (April 25) had killed more than 1,800 people, a toll predicted to rise as rescuers used their hands to dig for survivors among the rubble. Nepal’s Home Ministry confirmed the death toll had reached 1,805 and that more than 4,700 people had been injured. Amateur video posted on a social media website showed large cracks […]
FOREIGN embassy officials arrived on Nusakambangan island on Saturday (April 25), the maximum security prison where the execution of 10 drug convicts is expected to take place. Indonesia had asked foreign embassies to send representatives to the prison island, diplomats said on Friday (April 24), although an official 72-hour notice of execution has not yet been given. Embassy officials received text messages from the government to send representatives. It was not clear why they were […]
ONE of several convicted drug smugglers on death row in Indonesia has painted three self-portraits which his lawyer presented to the media on Saturday (April 25). Two Australian drug convicts were notified on Saturday (April 25), that they will be executed by firing squad in 72 hours at the Indonesian prison island of Nusakambangan. The Attorney General’s office said notices were delivered that Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, along with one Nigerian and four other […]
RESCUERS and residents on Saturday (april 25) started the desperate search for people trapped amongst the rubble after a powerful earthquake struck Nepal, killing hundreds. The death toll for the earthquake has risen to 758, a home ministry official has said, of which 467 were in the Kathmandu Valley that is the most heavily population part of the Himalayan region. The magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck Nepal and sent tremors through northern India, toppling a 19th-century […]
(Reuters) – A powerful earthquake struck Nepal and sent tremors through northern India on Saturday, killing hundreds of people, toppling a 19th-century tower in the capital Kathmandu and touching off a deadly avalanche on Mount Everest. There were reports of devastation in outlying, isolated mountainous areas after the midday quake of magnitude 7.9, Nepal’s worst in 81 years, centered 50 miles (80 km) east of the second city, Pokhara. A collapse in communications hampered relief […]
