Wexford woman escapes temple collapse in Nepal quake

A Wexford man has told how his mother narrowly escaped when a temple collapsed in an aftershock in Nepal at the weekend.

Wexford woman escapes temple collapse in Nepal quake

A Wexford man has told how his mother narrowly escaped when a temple collapsed in an aftershock in Nepal at the weekend.

Keith Jordan's mother Catherine is among a group of climbers who arrived shortly before Saturday's initial 7.8 magnitude earthquake.

More than 3,300 people are now known to have died in the disaster.

Keith says his mother and her group are focused on catching their flights home on Wednesday.

He said: "They left the temple, all eight of them, and then 10 minutes later there was an aftershock and that temple collapsed killing lots of people.

"I think the whole experience has been very traumatic for them and my mother this morning said she is in shock.

"It is very traumatic for them to be still in the middle of it."

Meanwhile, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has compiled a full list of Irish people believed to be missing in Nepal:

Alex Murphy, 25, Dublin

Arron Conran, 22, Ireland

Ciaran Sands, 55, Ireland

Cliodhna Cork, 21, Dublin

Darine Flanagan, 22, Galway

Emmet Gallagher, 33, Dublin

Jacqueline Bushe, 54, Donegal

Madelana Ryan, 48, Dublin

Niall Kavanagh, 54, Dublin

Nicholas Cooney, 71, Drogheda

Oliver McKevitt, 24, Northern Ireland

Pat Loughran, 66, Dublin

Sinead Nic Cionna, 31, Monaghan

Thomas Drumm, 55, Monaghan

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