Posted on 05/12/2015 4:21:39 PM PDT by QT3.14
Latest developments
• A U.S. military helicopter "was declared missing" Tuesday while in Nepal to support earthquake relief efforts there, U.S. Navy Capt. Chris Sims said. The UH-1 Huey helicopter had six U.S. Marines and two Nepalese aboard at the time, Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren said. Radio transmissions indicated its crew was having some type of fuel problem before it went missing, said Warren, who added the U.S. government is "hopeful" the aircraft didn't crash but doesn't know.
• At least 50 people have died in Nepal because of the latest large earthquake there, police spokesman Kamal Singh Bam told CNN late Tuesday. Nepalese government spokesman Minendra Rijal earlier said that another 1,261 people have been injured. Thirty-two of the Asian nation's 75 districts were affected.
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IT’S GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!!!
Wish one would get O and M.
It must be because of all the fracking they’re doing there.
Didn’t hear about the one in Japan.
Prayers for those impacted as well as the US helicopter crew trying to help then. The Himalayas are very prone to landslides as much of the rock making up the mountains is sedimentary and weakly bonded.
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