Nepalese students stranded in bunker in Israel ask govt to rescue them

Some of the students from Nepal who are stranded in a bunker in Israel after Hamas militants from Gaza launched a wave of rocket attacks in the country's southern region have sent a video message asking the Nepalese government to take immediate steps to evacuate them.

“We are not safe in this bunker because earlier, our friends were brutally killed by the Hamas people entering into the bunker and we don’t want to have the same fate,” the students said in the video message, reported setopati.com, an online news portal.

Some of the Nepalese were among the 265 students who went to Israel under its "Learn and Earn" study programme, according to Foreign Ministry sources.