Posted on 05/01/2015 12:34:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The number of missing people after Nepal's deadly earthquake is likely in the thousands, with the tally for Canadians who have yet to make contact with home remaining a mystery.
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The Foreign Affairs Department said in an email Thursday that search and rescue efforts are continuing, and it's "too early to make a determination on how many Canadians are missing in Nepal."
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The confirmed death toll from last Saturday's disaster has risen to 6,260, with 14,357 injured, according to the Nepalese government.
There is no number for the missing, but bodies are still being pulled from the debris of ruined buildings,
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Among the Canadians missing are Bruce and Kathy Macmillan, last known to be hiking near the quake's epicentre.
The St. Albert, Alta., couple had been hiking in Langtang National Park, on a trail the two traversed 35 years ago, shortly after they were married.
The Macmillans are experienced hikers who on this trip elected to not have a guide or a tent, and had planned to stay in teahouses during their trek. They had been travelling in Asia for six months.
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I sent several rifles and about a dozen pistols over to Nepal to have their firing pins honed. I haven’t heard anything from the gun shop that was doing the work since the earthquake, and I’m getting very concerned about it.
That’s a tough break. I hate to sound pessimistic, but given all the chaos there you may never see them again.
That’s terrible. You must be heartbroken. I know I was was after my tragic boating accident.
Good news! I just heard from the Khatmandu Firing Pin Honing Shop LLC on my ham radio and they’re alright. Thanks to digital technology they faxed your records to me over the ham and I forwarded it all to the ATF for you. No worries now, mate!
No, please, don’t thank me!
I don’t understand it. I sent them to the Strong Mountain Firing Pin Honing Cooperative, which is KFPHS’s main competitor. Perhaps SMFPHC farmed the work out to KFPHS.
It’s a shame you can’t trust them furrin countries. But at least we got you back in the system all square and documented! ;^)
https://donations.namb.net/sslpage.aspx?pid=376
100% of donations goes to relief efforts and not salaries, etc.
Also Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse is an excellent organization, too. http://www.samaritanspurse.org/donation-items/nepal-earthquake-response/?utm_source=Bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=m_YYNP-015V_BingSPNEPAL
Oops. . .gave the North American relief site (which is good) but here is the Global Response disaster site. Sorry about that!
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