A Magen David Adom emergency services delegation flies to Nepal in order to evacuate four Israeli babies born to surrogate mothers in Kathmandu after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake shook the region Tuesday.
A newborn baby in a neonatal facility put up by IsraAID in Kathmandu on May 12, 2015. (photo credit: Courtesy IsraAID)
Citing harsh conditions in the Himalayan country and the newborns’ fragile state, parents of the babies who were waiting in a car outside a Kathmandu field hospital appealed to the Israeli government to help bring their children to Israel as quickly as possible.
The earthquake struck near the Chinese border between the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu and Mount Everest early Tuesday afternoon, 17 days after another powerful quake left more than 8,000 people dead in the country.
Authorities in Nepal said Tuesday that at least 48 people were killed and more than 1,100 injured, while 17 people also died across the border in northern India.
The earthquake also brought fresh terror to a traumatized Nepal around noon on Tuesday as buildings already damaged in the monster quake last month came tumbling down.
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