{"id":59730,"date":"2023-11-09T16:30:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T07:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/nov\/09\/i-survived-my-family-did-not-nepal-earthquake-victims-mourn-wait-for-aid"},"modified":"2023-11-09T16:30:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T07:30:05","slug":"i-survived-my-family-did-not-nepals-quake-victims-mourn-and-wait-for-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59730","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I survived. My family did not\u2019: Nepal\u2019s quake victims mourn and wait for aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the earthquake killed at least 153 people, fears are rising for 12,000 families left without shelter in freezing temperatures<\/p>\n<p>Early on Saturday morning, Haris Bishwakarma learned he had become the sole guardian of his eight-year-old sister. His parents and two young brothers were killed in the powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/03\/dozens-killed-and-injured-by-magnitude-64-earthquake-in-nepal\">earthquake that hit Nepal<\/a> last Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old, from Chiuri village in Jajarkot district, was working in India to earn money to pay for his siblings\u2019 education when he got the call. \u201cI could not believe it. Immediately I took the bus, praying the news was not true.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/nov\/09\/i-survived-my-family-did-not-nepal-earthquake-victims-mourn-wait-for-aid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the earthquake killed at least 153 people, fears are rising for 12,000 families left without shelter in freezing temperaturesEarly on Saturday morning, Haris Bishwakarma learned he had become the sole guardian of his eight-year-old sister. His pa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[247,263,59,1709,241,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aid","category-earthquakes","category-global-development","category-natural-disasters","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59731,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59730\/revisions\/59731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}