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Thai-born doctor dies in Nepal earthquake
By Coconuts Bangkok

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Photo: Eve Girawong

KATHMANDU: -- Marisa Eve Girawong, a Thai-American physician at the Mt. Everest base camp was killed under an avalanche of ice and rock caused by Saturday’s 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Nepal.

Born in Thailand, Girawong, 29, lived in the US state of New Jersey and had been working at the base camp for a year prior to the disastrous quake, the rising death toll of which has increased over 3,000 this morning.

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2015/04/27/thai-born-doctor-dies-nepal-earthquake

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-- Coconuts Bangkok 2015-04-27

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Tragic and most unfortunate, but that's what can happen when you don't afford such mountains the respect and distance they deserve/demand.

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...how is it that they do not know what areas were affected....and how many people possibly perished....

...7.9 is huge.....

...they can check by satellite....

...terrible disaster....my condolences to all the family and friends of the victims...and my sympathies to the spiritual center of the world...Nepal...

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