Greek volleyball player recounts ordeal in Nepal amid political unrest

[Intime News]

Greek volleyball subordinate Eva Chantava, who, on with teammates, was among those trapped successful Nepal successful caller days pursuing unrest sparked by the premier minister’s resignation, said she feared for her beingness earlier managing to scope superior Kathmandu for her instrumentality to Greece.

In a station connected Instagram, Chantava reassured her followers that she had flown safely to the Nepalese capital. “Everything is fine,” she wrote.

Speaking aboriginal to Open TV, she described however she and her teammates sought refuge when riots broke retired successful Surkhet, the metropolis where they were staying. “We were saved due to the fact that the edifice was similar a maze and had galore exits, and we managed to get retired successful flip-flops and pajamas and were successful the wood for an hr and a half,” she said. “There was nary information astatine the hotel, we were lone moving connected our instincts, I accidental this and I consciousness similar crying, due to the fact that I thought I was going to die.”

“Honestly, I ne'er expected to acquisition something similar this here. We were staying astatine a edifice that belonged to a authorities official, and arsenic you saw, they were mounting occurrence to everything linked to authorities figures,” said the Greek athlete.