Ottawa's Faye Kennedy injured but safe after Nepal earthquake

An Ottawa woman who had not been heard from since Saturday's devastating earthquake in Nepal suffered minor injuries but is safe in Kathmandu, her family told CBC News.

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Faye Kennedy, 32, was trekkingwith two friends in Nepal's Langtang National Park when the magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit outside the capital of Kathmandu, killing more than 4,000 people.

Kennedy's family said her two friends are still at the park, wherehundreds of people are dead.

"She says it's horrible. She says she's lucky to be alive," her sister Lisa Kennedy told CBC News. "She says it's been beyond harrowing and beyond scary. That she left her friends amongst hundreds of dead bodies inLangtang. It's just beyond what I can even comprehend."

Kennedy's family said they'd been scrambling to try and find information about her through the weekend.

Just after noon on Monday, her family told CBC News that Kennedy had been in touch via email afterbeingairlifted to Kathmandu.

"It's relief but it's a whole new fear now," her sister said. "We just want to get her back. Get her fixed up."

Hundreds of Canadians missing

Otherpeople with connections to the Ottawa area wereamong the hundreds of Canadiansmissing after the earthquake, including Abha Satyal's husband Sam Caldbick, who was travelling in the same area as Kennedy.

Sam Caldbrick has since turned upsafe.

"It's like a nightmare, you just can't believe it," Satyal said before her husband was able to get in touch with her. "The villages in the area he was trekking have been wiped out, the place he called from last time the whole village has been wiped out. We're really worried."

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TheInternational Committee of the Red Cross has an online message board where people can be reported missing.

CBC News has also heard from people who survived the earthquake and its aftermath,including filmmaker Elia Saikaly, whose camp near the Mount Everest base camp was hit by an avalanche.

Foreign Affairs has been tweeting out the phone number and email address for Canadians needing emergency consular assistance in Nepal: + 977 (1) 444-1976 and email:sos@international.gc.ca.

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