Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Nepal tells foreign rescue teams not to come (UN)

Nepal has told foreign search and rescue teams not to come because there are already enough in the earthquake-hit country, a senior UN official said Wednesday.

Resident coordinator for Nepal Jamie McGoldrick said the government had decided it had enough foreign experts in and around the capital Kathmandu, which has been devastated by a massive quake that struck on Saturday.

"They feel they have enough capacity to deal with the immediate needs in search and rescue," he told AFP.

"Those that are already en route can come but the others are being told not to."

Kathmandu's tiny single-runway airport has struggled to accommodate the huge rush of flights bringing in aid and foreign experts.

A French military plane carrying relief supplies and medical charity workers was on Wednesday stuck in Abu Dhabi because it could not get permission to land in Kathmandu, according to a French foreign ministry source.

McGoldrick said most of the foreign search and rescue teams in the country were still in the capital.

"There is a window of seven to nine days, tops, to rescue people. We are now on day four," he said, adding that by Saturday operations would likely move on to the next stage.

  AFP
 [ahram.org.eg]
29/4/15
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  1. Nepal 'unlikely' to find any more earthquake survivors...

    The government in Nepal has ruled out the possibility of finding more survivors buried in the rubble from last weekend's massive earthquake.

    It has also announced that the death toll has risen to 6,621.

    "It has already been one week since the disaster," home ministry spokesman Laxmi Prasad Dhakal said.

    "We are trying our best in rescue and relief work but now I don't think that there is any possibility of survivors under the rubble."

    As well as updating the death toll, Mr Dhakal put the number of injured at 14,023.

    The 7.8-magnitude quake was the deadliest in Nepal for more than 80 years.

    It devastated vast swathes of the country when it erupted around midday last Saturday and reduced much of the capital, Kathmandu, to ruins.

    Multiple teams of rescuers from more than 20 countries have been using sniffer dogs and heat-seeking equipment to find survivors in the rubble, but no one has been pulled alive since Thursday evening.....rte.ie

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