Adelaide family reconnects with missing son
One Adelaide family has had an anxious wait, wondering if their son survived.
Jamie Nikou's parents had just sat down to be interviewed by 7News when the phone rang.
"Jamie! Ooh! How're you going mate?" Jaimie's father exclaimed, bursting out with joy as he heard his son's voice.
Relief was instantly washing over the 23-year-old's parents.
"No bruises? No nothing?" Mr Nikou asked.
The worried parents had spent a sleepless night, knowing their son was in the earthquake zone when it struck.
Unscathed, Jamie described the carnage over a shaky phone line.
"I saw all the buildings destroyed, temples destroyed, lots of people trapped in buildings. There were 70 people trapped in one temple. Highways were blocked and bridges destroyed," Jaimie said.
He will stay in Nepal to help with the recovery.
Also Channel Seven's Briony Hume was at Kathmandu airport when the earthquake struck. She'd been volunteering at the Sunrise children's home.
"As I stepped out onto the tarmac that's when the major shake was underway and it felt like an absolute eternity but it probably lasted 30 seconds to a minute and the ground went up and down and sideways. It was completely terrifying," Hume said.
