Posted on 05/03/2015 5:17:28 AM PDT by nuconvert
Three people were pulled out alive from the rubble of their home eight days after Nepal's devastating earthquake, an official said on Sunday, but rescuers have found about 50 bodies on a popular trekking route that was hit by an avalanche.
The current toll of 7,056 dead is likely to rise as an entire village was carried away by the avalanche and many more people are believed to have died, officials said.
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The entire village of Langtang was wiped out by the avalanche, said Ganga Sagar Pant, the head of the Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal...
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The village is on a popular trekking route and has 55 guesthouses catering to visitors.
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Tell the politicians and bureaucrats to stay home and let the US military run the show for the next 90 days.
United Nations Resident Representative Jamie McGoldrick said the government must loosen its normal customs restrictions to deal with the increasing flow of relief pouring in from abroad.
But the government, complaining it has received unneeded supplies such as tuna and mayonnaise, insisted its customs agents had to check all emergency shipments.
“tuna and mayonnaise” Quick, someone get them some celery and grapes so that they can make a salad!!!! This is an emergency people!
I know.
If I was starving in the rubble that used to be my home and some foreign dude offered me tuna and mayo...
I sure wouldn’t get upset about it.
In before the pictures of DeForest Kelly.
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