More than 3,800 deaths – is the latest, but still finite matter balance of Saturday’s earthquake in Nepal. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of this country – the most – nearly 900 people were killed in the district Sindhupalchwok.
More than 800 in the capital Kathmandu. The number of wounded is estimated at this time for 6 and a half thousand people. About one hundred people were killed also in India and China. According to experts, the final number of deaths could reach up to five thousand people. Tremors were the strength of 7.9 on the Richter scale. After them was 55 aftershocks, including the strength of yesterday’s 6.7 degrees.
I ruined a rural region of Gorkha in Nepal, where there was the epicenter of the shock. Accurate statement – also in people – there can not be estimated because of damaged infrastructure. The roads are impassable, and many houses in these villages has been completely destroyed or were buried by heaps of sliding to the ground.
This past weekend at least twice in the region of Mount Everest last avalanche wherein killed at least 22 people. To hospitals in Kathmandu transported the first group of injured climbers. Still no contact with many people who were in the area of Everest. President of the Nepal mountaineering Association estimates that the highest mountain in the world, in the area of avalanche danger, there were 800 people, mostly foreigners.
As a result of the earthquake affected nearly a million children. UNICEF emphasizes that the biggest problem today is to provide those in need access to clean water and cleaning agents.
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