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This Nepal flood survivor lost 17 family members · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: On this unfinished rooftop of a small municipal building in Bidor, Nepal,
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  Speaker 1: 50 men left homeless by the flood try to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: But the nights are long and cold, and Subha Tumang says,
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  Speaker 1: full of tears and fear.
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  Speaker 2: This place is not also safe.
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  Speaker 1: So you're afraid the floods could even come up to
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  Speaker 1: this roof?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: How do you sleep at night? Are you able to sleep?
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  Speaker 2: No, we couldn't. Because many people cry because they lost
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  Speaker 2: their family members too. So many people cry here at night,
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  Speaker 2: remembering their members. And every day it goes like that.
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  Speaker 1: You got the helicopters always flying over. Every day, the
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  Speaker 1: choppers fly out, searching for survivors. Every night, they fly back.
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  Speaker 1: And those he lost are still gone.
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  Speaker 2: And I lost my eight family members there.
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  Speaker 1: You lost eight family members?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I lost my uncle, aunt. And my siblings.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 5: This one also.
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  Speaker 4: This is your brother?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: How old is he?
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  Speaker 2: He's two years old.
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  Speaker 3: What's his name?
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  Speaker 2: His name is Sagar Anjana. How old is Anjana? She's
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  Speaker 2: two years old. Her name is Dolma Taman.
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  Speaker 1: So she's your aunt? Yeah. Camera phone pictures are precious
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  Speaker 1: commodities for Subha and his cousin, Kopila Tuman. They have
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  Speaker 1: little else left.
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  Speaker 6: When he was born, I clickies.
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  Speaker 7: You took this one?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. How old? One month. She is first daughter, second daughter.
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  Speaker 6: My mom is third one. This also lost. My mom
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  Speaker 6: and my two siblings also. Two cousin, auntie and her daughter.
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  Speaker 1: Both were lost?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, both lost. This is my sister.
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  Speaker 4: She also lost.
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  Speaker 6: This is my grandma.
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  Speaker 1: She was also lost?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, she also lost. She's so innocent, seriously. She used
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  Speaker 6: to love me so much.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone in this picture is gone?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, these all are gone.
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  Speaker 6: They are like my children. When I came home, they
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  Speaker 6: always come back with me and call me Fupu. So
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  Speaker 6: I miss them.
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  Speaker 4: 17 family members. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's really hard to even wrap your head around.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The 2015 earthquake destroyed her old family home. Back then,
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  Speaker 1: everyone survived. This time, the wall of water consumed her
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  Speaker 1: family's new home in Musabat, leaving nothing and no one behind.
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  Speaker 2: So you were trying to call.
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  Speaker 1: Your dad, your mom.
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  Speaker 6: Nobody picked up.
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  Speaker 4: My relatives, there is no answer.
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  Speaker 5: Because all of them were gone.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What's keeping you strong?
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  Speaker 6: I have one small brother. I have to take care
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  Speaker 6: of him. Now I am the mother for him, so
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  Speaker 6: I have to be strong. When I cry, he will
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  Speaker 6: also cry. Hello.
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  Speaker 7: He's my brother.
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  Speaker 4: What's your name? Gogantaman.
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  Speaker 5: Gogantaman. Nice to meet you.
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  Speaker 1: Time passes slowly here. Most people are still in a
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  Speaker 1: state of shock with only the clothes on their backs.
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  Speaker 1: About 100 women and children sleep in this yoga center.
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  Speaker 1: They tell me every time there's a rumor of another flood,
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  Speaker 1: everyone runs up this nearby hill and hides. The rumors
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  Speaker 1: often come late at night, they say. There are no showers,
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  Speaker 1: and everyone shares a bathroom. They get their drinking water
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  Speaker 1: from a truck or fill their bottles at nearby waterfalls.
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  Speaker 1: Children like Regina and Rosita Buta can't go to school
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  Speaker 1: because it was also destroyed. So what happened when you're
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  Speaker 1: on the bus going to school? We could see the
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  Speaker 1: water chasing us from our window, she says. Everyone started
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  Speaker 1: crying and shouting. The driver drove very fast and took
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  Speaker 1: us to a safer place. I was extremely scared. We
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  Speaker 1: thought the flood would not be this big, but when
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  Speaker 1: we saw how huge it was, we were terrified. Her dad,
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  Speaker 1: Rajendra Bhutta, says the bus driver saved his children's lives.
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  Speaker 1: He saw dozens of houses being washed away, along with
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  Speaker 1: a bridge and a road. The raging water dragged this
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  Speaker 1: bus hundreds of feet.
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  Speaker 2: Did you ever think you'd see a flood like this?
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  Speaker 1: No, I've never seen this type of flood, he says.
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  Speaker 1: Not just me, but my father and grandfather also never
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  Speaker 1: witnessed such a devastating flood in their lifetimes. I think
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  Speaker 1: a large number of schoolchildren may have died, since some
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  Speaker 1: of their parents may also have died There's no one
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  Speaker 1: to ask about their whereabouts.
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  Speaker 4: You really got to watch your step.
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  Speaker 1: This is quicksand, probably about 20 feet deep.
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  Speaker 7: Some of these guys out here said they've stepped in
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  Speaker 7: it and it went.
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  Speaker 5: Right up to their neck.
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  Speaker 7: That makes recovering bodies very difficult and dangerous. Nobody knows
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  Speaker 7: how many bodies are buried beneath or when or where
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  Speaker 7: it'll be safe to rebuild all the homes, all the lives.
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  Speaker 5: Swept away.
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  Speaker 1: Will Ripley, CNN, Bidor, Nepal.
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  Speaker 3: It's been one week since disaster struck, and in Trasuli,
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  Speaker 3: this is the end of the road. Once a bustling market,
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  Speaker 3: now soggy and cement-soaked, it looks like a wasteland. The
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  Speaker 3: river is running fast, the water is still high, residents
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  Speaker 3: and visitors stand and stare.
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  Speaker 4: This water source has been a life for people living here.
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  Speaker 4: And by that I mean they've been living here for
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  Speaker 4: generations and generations.
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  Speaker 3: Looking at the water today, does it look different to you?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it does.
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  Speaker 3: In what way?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it makes me sad. It makes me sad and
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  Speaker 4: emotional as well because.
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  Speaker 4: This is one of the sacred water resources that we have.
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  Speaker 4: You know, when you mourn for somebody in your family
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  Speaker 4: once they have died, people go up across this river
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  Speaker 4: and then they do all the rituals over there. So
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  Speaker 4: this is kind of like a holy river for us.
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  Speaker 3: Buddhist monks came from Kathmandu to pray and offer blessings.
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  Speaker 3: traffic snarls on broken roads. The jackknife truck is hardly noticed.
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  Speaker 4: A local school.
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  Speaker 3: Bus driver, Chiring Tamang, saved the lives of some 50 children,
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  Speaker 3: picking them up just before their school was destroyed and
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  Speaker 3: crossing a bridge before it was washed away.
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  Speaker 5: After two minutes of me crossing the bridge, the flood
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  Speaker 5: came on my side. Kids started screaming after seeing the flood.
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  Speaker 5: They were shouting. One kid fainted inside the bus. They
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  Speaker 5: were asking me to drive faster. On the road, there
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  Speaker 5: were people running like ants to save their lives. After
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  Speaker 5: I drove near the uphill, I could see the flood
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  Speaker 5: is already ahead of me. I reached a higher location
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  Speaker 5: and I felt safe with the kids. I took a
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  Speaker 5: long breath and then I continued my duty of dropping
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  Speaker 5: the kids, came back and parked the bus at the
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  Speaker 5: police station.
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  Speaker 3: I asked him what it feels like to be a hero.
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  Speaker 5: It's a sad time for me. I have lost my nephew.
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  Speaker 5: She was working in the same school. I'm very sad
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  Speaker 5: that my nephew is dead. My nephew called me before
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  Speaker 5: I crossed the bridge. This was right after I informed
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  Speaker 5: the principal regarding the flood. He told me, uncle, where
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  Speaker 5: are you? There's flood coming in the river. She was
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  Speaker 5: a helper at the school. He informed me to not
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  Speaker 5: go to the school. He lives in the same school
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  Speaker 5: with his family. He has a daughter. and his wife
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  Speaker 5: is disabled. They are safe now. They have nothing left,
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  Speaker 5: as my nephew was my only breadwinner of the family.
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  Speaker 3: Later, he showed us a photo of his nephew. His
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  Speaker 3: name was Tridam Lama. There are many heroes here, but
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  Speaker 3: even they have heavy hearts. Anderson Cooper, CNN, Trasuli.