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  • At least 128 killed in Nepal earthquake

    At least 128 killed in Nepal earthquake

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    Ediri Oyibo
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    At least 128 people have died in a strong earthquake in Nepal, according to police in the capital Kathmandu.

  • Just In: Plane crashes, kills 40 passengers, injures many

    Just In: Plane crashes, kills 40 passengers, injures many

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    Emman Ovuakporie
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    No fewer than 40 people were killed when an aircraft crashed in Nepal on Sunday, a Nepal army spokesperson said, as hundreds of rescue workers scoured the hillside crash site. “We expect to recover more bodies,” the spokesperson, Krishna Bhandari, said. “The plane has broken into pieces.” A Yeti Airlines spokesperson, Sudarshan Bartaula, said there…

  • Nepal Police arrest former speaker over rape allegations

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    Kehinde Ajose
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    Police Officials on Monday in Nepal said it has arrested the former parliamentary speaker over rape allegations by a government worker. Krishna Mahara, the speaker of House of Representatives, resigned from his job after the woman accused him of sexually assaulting her at her apartment in Kathmandu last week. “We received a complaint of attempted…

  • At least 17 killed in Nepal landslides, floods

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    Kehinde Ajose
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    More than 2,000 Muslim pilgrims arrived in Madinah for the 2019 Hajj as at Friday, July 12, Alhaji Ahmed Maigari, the Madinah Coordinator for National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) said. He told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Madinah on Saturday that all logistic arrangements had been concluded to enable pilgrims to perform their…

  • Magnitude-5.2 earthquake strikes Nepal day before anniversary

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    Olaotan Falade
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    Nepal was struck by a magnitude-5.2 earthquake on Wednesday, the country’s seismological centre said, on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the major quake that killed about 9,000 people. The moderate intensity quake hit at 6.29 a.m. local time (1244GMT), Nepal’s National Seismological Centre said. Its epicentre was in Naubise, about 28 kilometres south-west…

  • Death toll rises to 90 as landslides, floods engulf Nepal

    Death toll rises to 90 as landslides, floods engulf Nepal

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    Ediri Oyibo
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    Five people were killed in Nepal on Wednesday by landslides and flooding brought on by monsoon rains, bringing the death toll to 90 across the country. “A woman and her two children, one of them an infant, were killed when a landslide struck their home in a village in north-central Nepal’s Gorkha district,’’ local Police…

  • Crude bomb blast at Indian government relief office in Nepal

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    Bayo Millz
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    A crude bomb went off outside an Indian government relief office in Nepal causing minor damage but no injuries, officials said on Tuesday, in what appeared to be a rare gesture of Nepali anger toward its giant neighbor to the south. The blast happened in Biratnagar town, near the Indian border, 200 km (125 miles)…

  • Nepal bans vehicles older than 20 years

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    Ediri Oyibo
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    Nepal on Thursday banned from the roads vehicles older than 20 years across the country in a bid to control worsening air quality and to ease traffic congestion, officials said. The government decision, which followed a similar campaign in the capital Kathmandu a year ago, has forced more than 5,000 ageing vehicles, including buses and…

  • 19 perish in Nepal bus accident

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    Kehinde Ajose
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    At least 19 people lost their lives when an overloaded bus veered off the road and plunged into a river in central Nepal on Saturday, police said.   The bus slipped off the road in Dhading district, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) west of the capital Kathmandu, early morning and fell into the Trishuli River.…