{"id":4877,"date":"2015-04-30T06:43:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T06:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4877"},"modified":"2015-04-30T06:43:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T06:43:19","slug":"boy-found-alive-in-rubble-five-days-after-nepal-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4877","title":{"rendered":"Boy &#8216;found alive in rubble&#8217; five days after Nepal quake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Napel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4878\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Napel.jpg\" alt=\"Napel\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>Rescue workers are attempting to salvage a teenage boy buried deep in rubble in Kathmandu after he was found alive, the BBC reports.<\/p>\n<p>During the night, a UK aid flight carrying around 120 British nationals who were left stranded in Nepal arrived at Stansted Airport.<\/p>\n<p>A team of Gurkha engineers have arrived in Nepal to assist rescue operations, after the death toll from the disaster rose neared 5,500.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after the country&#8217;s Prime Minister predicted to increase to as much as 10,000.<\/p>\n<p>Other developments include:<\/p>\n<p>The number of confirmed deaths has risen to 5,489, an official from Nepal&#8217;s home ministry said.<br \/>\nThe UK has pledged a further \u00a35m in support to the rescue effort in Nepal, bringing the total contribution to \u00a315m.<br \/>\nBetween 17 and 22 people were killed on Mount Everest after the quake triggered a major avalanche<br \/>\nAll climbers stranded on the face of the mountain have now been airlifted to safety<br \/>\nThe Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) is appealing for donations to help get aid to Nepal after the devastating earthquake. Visit www.dec.org.uk for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rescue workers are attempting to salvage a teenage boy buried deep in rubble in Kathmandu after he was found alive, the BBC reports. During the night, a UK aid flight carrying around 120 British nationals who were left stranded in Nepal arrived at Stansted Airport. A team of Gurkha engineers have arrived in Nepal to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[211,210],"class_list":["post-4877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","tag-kathmandu","tag-nepal-quake"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Napel.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1gF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4879,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions\/4879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}