Nepalese police spokesman Kamal Singh Ban said that in 1953 the Nepalese people were killed, including Kathmandu – at least 721. In India, the government announced a 53 fatalities . According to official Chinese sources in Tibet, killed 17 people. In total there are 5 thousand wounded. people.
The authorities fear that the final number of victims of the disaster will be much higher.
Shock strength of 7.9 on the Richter scale occurred on Saturday morning local time, its epicenter was located 80 km east from the city of Pokhara in the central part of the country. About half an hour later, there was another shock strength of 6.6. There has also several successive already weak shocks.
It was the strongest earthquake in Nepal for 81 years.
In the capital, Kathmandu, and its surroundings collapsed many old buildings and monuments remain under the rubble people. Nepalese professionals have problems with their extraction due to lack of equipment. Hospitals are full of wounded.
As a result of shock avalanche came down in the area of the world’s highest peak – Mount Everest; there killed at least 17 people and wounded 61. The first 15 people injured in an avalanche climbers preparing for expeditions into the mountains on Sunday brought rescue plane to Kathmandu.
Interior Ministry spokesman Laxmi Dhakal said that in the regions affected by the earthquake declared a state of emergency.
To Nepal starts pouring in from around the world to help.
Nepal appeals for humanitarian aid
In Nepal introduced a state of emergency, and the authorities of the country are calling for humanitarian assistance.
The Nepalese have already reached assistance and specialized equipment from India and China. In the near future to Kathmandu to fly rescuers inter alia, Russia, the US and Polish. To the capital of Nepal, he got the first transport aircraft with 15 hardest injured climbers who were evacuated from Everest. In areas where buildings collapsed, it takes a race against time, because in the case of people trapped under the rubble chances of survival decrease with every hour of the disaster.
The next shock in Nepal and India
Meanwhile in Nepal, as well as in India, again, can be felt. From Mount Everest, just like yesterday, avalanche came down, and the quake was also felt in the center of New Delhi, the capital of India.
According to the American Institute of geophysical USGS, today’s shock strength was 6.7 on the Richter scale. The epicenter was located 30 km from the town of Kodari, in the north-east of the capital Kathmandu.
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