SA family survives Nepal earthquake

Tuesday, 28 April 2015, 13:34
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SA family survives Nepal earthquake
Hadassah (3), Andy, Laura and Asher (5) Bleakley survived the earthquake and aftershocks in Nepal.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS - A Richards Bay family was among the more than one million people caught in the sequence of earthquakes that shook Nepal during the weekend.

Mission workers Andy and Laura Bleakley were home with their daughter Hadassah (3) and son Asher (5) when the first quake, estimated at a massive magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale, struck an area between the capital, Kathmandu and the city of Pokhara.

"We fled out with our two kids and slept outside on Sunday night with many others," Andy said.
 

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