Candles, Grief and Hope: Australian Nepalese Community Responds to Catastrophe
Expatriates and supporters have gathered in Hurstville and lit candles, remembering the dead and hoping the missing will be recovered.
TL;DR
- Australian Nepalese community held a vigil in Sydney for avalanche victims.
- The disaster occurred on Aug. 26 in Nepal and Tibet.
- Water walls from the avalanche were estimated to be up to 440 feet high.
- Nepal's NDRRMA estimates 987 dead and 3,916 missing.
- The Chinese Communist Party is accused of not raising alarms and withholding the death toll in Tibet.