People from various parts of India who were rescued from flood-hit Nepal on Saturday described the massive devastation caused by the disaster in the Himalayan nation and said they considered themselves fortunate to have survived.
We took our children and ran up the hill. After an hour, when the water level receded, we went to look for them, but we could not find the three people. I went outside to see what was happening, but I could only see dust. We then ran towards higher terrain but three others were left behind.
Moments later, I saw that there was a lot of water due to the storm…immediately I alerted the people inside. One of the labourers said: “There were five to seven of us, three of our people went missing…There was a lot of water in the area, rising up to 20 feet. A youngster said: “At around 9:30 a.m., I heard a lot of noise. Her son-in-law said: “My mother-in-law had reached Kathmandu on August 24 and was to visit (Mansarovar) on the 26th. Along with her there were 21 people in the bus when the disaster struck, while they were nearing the immigration office at China-Nepal border.”
“We were told to run away from there as people said there is no guarantee, the water (flood) might come again,” he added. “After we came down, there was no trace of any humans nor our house,” he said.
Another Chennai resident, who safely returned from disaster-hit Nepal, recounted the horror, saying: “We prayed thinking that we just have to escape from the situation….The government had initiated steps for taking us to Kathmandu. Later, the ambassador met and consoled us and we were provided food and stay. The following day, we were allowed to move to the airport. But our two children, helped us a lot… Even though we didn’t have the required documents, the (Nepal) administration helped us a lot.”
Because there were 106 people with us, and we wanted to leave together…but after the situation escalated, we agreed to board the flight, initially, we did not listen.
In Nagpur, a woman said, “We were constantly worried about whether or not we would make it out of there alive.
