Emotional scenes greet Hong Kong students as they return from quake-devastated Nepal

There were emotional scenes at Hong Kong’s airport as five out of 12 medical exchange students from Chinese University returned from Nepal on Tuesday morning.

The mother of one of the students hugged her son and cried. The son, surnamed Lau, said he hoped the government could help other Hongkongers stuck in Nepal to get back home as soon as possible.

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“We feel really happy to be able to return,” he said. “We are really the luckiest group because we could come back so fast without any injuries.”

Lau said when the earthquake struck, he and other students were in a well-built palace museum in Kathmandu which withstood the quake. He said the other exchange students were safe in Nepal, but they might not be able to contact family members due to electricity and communication problems there. He said their relatives and friends should not worry about them.

Another student, surnamed Wong, said they ran out to an open space when the quake hit and stayed there for hours without knowing it had caused so much damage.