Natural disasters: locals save more lives, says Red Cross before UN summit

By Lucy Cormack
Updated September 24 2015 - 2:08am, first published 1:56am
Children next to their makeshift shelter near a landslide area after the earthquake at Jure village in Sindhupalchowk, Nepal. Photo: Athit Perawongmetha
Children next to their makeshift shelter near a landslide area after the earthquake at Jure village in Sindhupalchowk, Nepal. Photo: Athit Perawongmetha
Graphic: Piktochart.
Graphic: Piktochart.
A village near Port Vila, Vanuatu, a week after Cyclone Pam passed through.  Photo: Andrew Meares
A village near Port Vila, Vanuatu, a week after Cyclone Pam passed through. Photo: Andrew Meares
Graphic: Piktochart.
Graphic: Piktochart.

More lives are saved and casualties rescued by local people than outsiders in disasters around the world, a new report says.

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