Nepal rescue operation focuses on mountains after latest earthquake
Nepal has again been plunged into trauma after the latest fatal earthquake on Tuesday.
A mountainous area east of the capital Kathmandu is the worst affected, while a search is on for a missing US Marine helicopter with eight crew members.
Home ministry official Laxmi Prasad Dhakal says at least 65 people were killed and some 2,000 injured in the 7.3 magnitude tremor, and it’s feared the number of victims could rise.
Existing relief efforts after April’s quake have been complicated.
In Kathmandu more buildings collapsed; many who had only just ventured back into their homes have again slept outdoors.
“People, everybody is scared. Right now nobody stays in the house, everybody is on the road… They are sleeping in (tents)... I don’t know what we have to do, it’s problem. Why is it happening like this?” said Pandap Rizal, from Nuwakot district just north of the capital.
Whole areas of housing were destroyed in the district of Dolakha east of Kathmandu.
Most of the new fatali
A mountainous area east of the capital Kathmandu is the worst affected, while a search is on for a missing US Marine helicopter with eight crew members.
Home ministry official Laxmi Prasad Dhakal says at least 65 people were killed and some 2,000 injured in the 7.3 magnitude tremor, and it’s feared the number of victims could rise.
Existing relief efforts after April’s quake have been complicated.
In Kathmandu more buildings collapsed; many who had only just ventured back into their homes have again slept outdoors.
“People, everybody is scared. Right now nobody stays in the house, everybody is on the road… They are sleeping in (tents)... I don’t know what we have to do, it’s problem. Why is it happening like this?” said Pandap Rizal, from Nuwakot district just north of the capital.
Whole areas of housing were destroyed in the district of Dolakha east of Kathmandu.
Most of the new fatali