WINNIPEG – Manitobans with family in Nepal are anxious to find out if their loved ones survived the massive earthquake on the weekend, or how they are coping in the aftermath.
“This is very very hard to imagine,” said Purushottam Singh in Winnipeg.
Singh’s parents, In-laws and other loved ones were in and around Kathmandu when the earthquake happened.
“My family has been struggling, in the beginning we couldn’t even contact them,” he told Global News.
Eventually he made contact with them.
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Their houses have been damaged and they don’t know where to stay. He says they fear aftershocks but it has started to rain.
Singh is also the president of the Nepali Cultural Society of Manitoba. He says around 700 people in this province are Nepalese.
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He says the society is mobilizing relief efforts and hope to have an account set up at TD Canada by the end of day Monday.
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The Society also plans to keep people updated through its website at http://www.nepalicsm.com
By Monday afternoon the death toll from the quake had passed 4,000 and was expected to keep climbing once search crews reach remote villages.
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