Skip to playerSkip to main content
  • 7 weeks ago
A team of United Sikhs Malaysia volunteers resumed their journey to Kathmandu on Thursday (Sept 10) after a landslide blocked the road in Nepal for almost 15 hours.

WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news
SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar
LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

Category

🗞
News
Transcript
00:00Road has cleared now.
00:03The road ahead may have been blocked,
00:05but the journey for United Sikhs Malaysia volunteers,
00:08stranded by a landslide in Borle, Nepal,
00:11is moving again after the debris was cleared on Thursday.
00:14The team was stranded for almost 15 hours
00:17after the landslide struck the road
00:19as they made their way back to Kathmandu.
00:22The landslide happened right before their eyes
00:25and that they had noticed stones
00:27falling from above just moments earlier.
00:30During the ordeal, the volunteers took refuge
00:32in a building under construction in a nearby village
00:35where they waited for the route to be cleared
00:38before continuing their journey.
00:40Our team had laid some tapolins
00:49used to protect us from the cement and dust
00:53on the floor, on the ground.
00:55The weather was very, very cold
00:58thanks to our survival expert, Vin,
01:03who had equipped with survival items, blankets,
01:11and travelling stove to ensure that we keep ourselves warm
01:17with hot coffees.
01:19The team had earlier delivered some aid to residents in Betrawati
01:23and visited the hometown of their driver in Ramche.
01:27United Sikhs Malaysia left for Nepal on September 4th
01:31to deliver humanitarian aid to victims of the flash floods
01:35along the Nepal-China border.
01:49the

Recommended