Global News by Tag: safety
PATTAN, KASHMIR, INDIA – Nazir Ahmad rushes to approach the owner of a horse-drawn cart, called a “tonga” here, and begs him to carry his ailing mother to the hospital.
“She suddenly caught fever and complains about pain in chest,” says Ahmad, a resident of Trikolbal, a village in Pattan.
Ambulances are unheard of here in Pattan, an administrative division in the northern part of Jammu and Kashmir state.
NAIROBI, KENYA – Consolato Mucheke, 18, says he has never come as close to death as he did last Monday on a rainy morning in a slum of Nairobi, Kenya’s capital.
He had just finished breakfast and was hanging around his home in the Sinai slums when he saw his friends and neighbors rushing to the river with containers.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – Passenger-filled buses, microbuses and trucks travel along Prithvi Highway, a 200-kilometer, snakelike road that connects Kathmandu, the capital, with the tourist town of Pokhara. The Trishuli River flows along the road. Over its rapid currents stretches a makeshift cable bridge with a small, rusted, square basket operated by a pulley system, popularly known as a “tuin,” which villagers in the foothills here use to cross the river.
