Live: Nepal death toll crosses 3200 as relief efforts continue
A Nepalese cycle rickshaw puller pedals past buildings at the Basantapur Durbar Square, damaged in Saturday’s earthquake, in Kathmandu. (Source: Associated Press)
The Nepal earthquake death toll has crossed 3200, according to the latest death toll put out by the Nepal government, reports Associated Press. In this live blog, we track developments of the day in the Nepal earthquake disaster of 2015.
8.00 am: Associated Press quotes a Nepal police official as saying that least 3,218 people have been confirmed dead. In addition to this 18 people have also been confirmed dead in an avalanche that swept through the Mount Everest base camp in the wake of the earthquake. India has seen the death toll rise to 61 people.
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7.35 am: The aftershocks for the Saturday earthquake continued on Sunday as well. The Sunday aftershocks measured 6.7 on the Richter scale, was the strongest of more than 40 ‘aftershocks’ that have been felt in Nepal after the big earthquake. Almost all of them had a magnitude of 4 or higher on the Richter scale, and a few of them were measured to be higher than 6. Scientists told Indian Express that this was normal, and only to be expected. There’s also some uncertainty on how long these will continue. Read what experts to Indian Express on here.
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7.00 am: India has stepped up rescue efforts for the Nepal earthquake. Thirteen military and three civilian aircraft were being sent to Kathmandu Sunday as part of India’s ongoing relief and rescue operations in the aftermath of a massive earthquake and its aftershocks in Nepal. The government was also planning to send a six-member inter-ministerial team, headed by an additional secretary with the Ministry of Home Affairs, to Kathmandu to coordinate rescue efforts. (Read more: India intensifies rescue efforts)
6.00 am: In Nepal’s Rupandehi, residents spent a sleepless night, troubled by the aftershocks. “We usually sleep at around 9 pm, but yesterday we were roaming the streets till midnight,” says Hari Om, sitting in his small lodge.
“At around 2 am, and then again at about 4:42 am, we felt tremors,” adds Mahesh Yadav, a policeman. Read the full Indian Express story: Nepal Earthquake: Sleepless wait next to cracks, fallen rocks
Source:: Indian Express
