7000+ killed in powerful Earthquake in Nepal

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Very sad and tragic indeed. First news to hear this morning. Nepal is a complex mountaneous place where any natural calamity can easily provide a very severe damage. RIP and hope the recovery process is expedited.

At Least 1,457 Believed Dead After Massive Earthquake Strikes NepalApr 25, 2015, 11:50 AM ET
By CORINNE CATHCART and EMILY SHAPIRO via GOOD MORNING AMERICA

A collapsed building in Kathmandu after an earthquake strikes Nepal.
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A massive earthquake near the capital of Nepal killed at least 1,457 people today as it collapsed temples and triggered an avalanche on Mt. Everest.
The magnitude-7.8 quake hit about 50 miles northwest of Kathmandu just before noon local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The death toll, estimated by the Nepalese Army, was expected to rise, said officials.
Another 1,055 were injured, said the country’s finance minister, Ram Sharan Mahat. It’s the worst earthquake in Nepal in over 80 years, according to the Associated Press.

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PHOTO: Damage in the city of Kathmandu after a massive earthquake strikes Nepal.

Abigail Hunter, an American traveling in Baktapur, saw people pulling others out of buildings and using motorbikes and small trucks as makeshift ambulances. The earthquake reduced many of the temples inside the city about 30 minutes away from the capital to rubble, she said, adding that she saw “lots of people praying to the actual temples” as aftershocks hit the city.
“The streets are littered with bricks, debris, loads of dust,” said Hunter, the sister of an ABC News employee. “[It] was hard to see during the earthquake with all the dust.”
A magnitude-6.6 aftershock hit about an hour after the initial earthquake and smaller aftershocks followed in the region for hours.

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PHOTO: Damage in the city of Kathmandu after a massive earthquake strikes Nepal.

Hunter said she watched as families ran to their homes to see if anyone was still inside.
“Everyone was very scared,” she said. “Lots of crying, families trying to find each other.”
Ayal Weiner-Kaplow, another American visiting Baktapur, said water wasn’t flowing in the city and most of the remaining food was dried junk food and crackers. He wandered around in search for something to eat until he came upon a restaurant.
“A restaurant owner filled us up - all of our bottles - and gave us potatoes, bread, and chicken, refused payment adamantly,” he said. “I was actually moved to tears.”

Abigail Hunter

PHOTO: Damage in Bhaktapur, an old city just outside Kathmandu, after an earthquake strikes Nepal.

Weiner-Kaplow said most Nepalis slept outside, believing their homes were unsafe if another earthquake struck.

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PHOTO: Damage in Bhaktapur, an old city just outside Kathmandu, after an earthquake strikes Nepal.

The quake also killed 34 in India, six in Tibet, two in Bangladesh, and two on the Nepal-China border.
The quake also triggered an avalanche on Mt. Everest that killed at least ten climbers and guides and injured many more.
David Arvan, who was set to climb Mt. Everest, said he immediately recognized the earthquake after living in California.
“We sought shelter under a concave boulder until it subsided,” he told ABC News by email. “Some people were crying in fear during all the rumbling.”
Azim Afif, a climber from Malaysia, was at a base camp when the quake hit and everything in his tent starting shaking.
“We go out and we see a big snowstorm coming to us,” he said, adding that he saw “white, nothing else than white.”
“We are very lucky to survive,” Afif said.
ABC News’ Jon Williams, Rym Momtaz and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

At Least 1,457 Believed Dead After Massive Earthquake Strikes Nepal - ABC News

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RIP

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Inna Lillahi Wa Inna Ilaihee Raajioon. To Allah we belong, and to Allah is our ultimate return.

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Shocking but interesting detail..

Extent of the Damage From the Nepal Earthquake

Strong Shaking Over a Wide Area
The earthquake’s epicenter was not far from the capital, Katmandu. The United States Geological Survey had counted 12 aftershocks by midafternoon, one of which measured at a magnitude of 6.6. Deaths were reported as far away as northern India and on Mount Everest. | RELATED ARTICLE »

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An Avalanche on Everest
The earthquake touched off an avalanche on Mount Everest, causing injuries and deaths during prime climbing season. | RELATED ARTICLE »

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Mt. Lhotse**27,940 FT.
Camp 4
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The avalanche trapped climbers on the upper slopes.

Camp 3
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Camp 1
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Members of an expedition report no injuries from Saturday’s avalanche.
“Our camp was in a good place, we got dusted but here at Camp 1 we were just fine.”

Khumbu Icefall
At least some portion of Saturday’s avalanche occurred along the Khumbu Icefall.

Base Camp
17,500 FT.
Reports of multiple deaths and injuries.

By The New York Times | Sources: Alan Arnette, a professional mountaineer; report from Camp 1 is from RMI Expeditions blog. Photograph by Grant Dixon/Hedgehog House, via Getty Images

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RIP :frowning:

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As it happens after every quake, the death toll has increased immensely and tripled to what was originally reported

Death toll in Nepal quake rises to more than 3,200

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The death toll from Nepal’s earthquake rose to 3,218 on Monday, two days after the massive quake ripped across this Himalayan nation, leaving tens of thousands shell-shocked and sleeping in streets.
Aid groups received the first word from remote mountain villages — reports that suggested many communities perched on mountainsides were devastated or struggling to cope.
**SEE ALSO: Terrifying POV video shows avalanche hitting Mount Everest base camp
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Landslides hindered rescue teams that tried to use mountain trails to reach those in need, said Prakash Subedi, chief district official in the Gorkha region, where the quake was centered.
“Villages like this are routinely affected by landslides, and it’s not uncommon for entire villages of 200, 300, up to 1,000 people to be completely buried by rock falls,” said Matt Darvas, a member of the aid group World Vision. “It will likely be helicopter access only.”

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A man is found buried alive in the rubble after the quake.
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Saturday’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake spread horror from Kathmandu to small villages and to the slopes of Mount Everest, triggering an avalanche that buried part of the base camp packed with foreign climbers preparing to make their summit attempts. At least 18 people died there and 61 were injured.
Deputy Inspector General of Police Komal Singh Bam said Monday that the death toll had risen to 3,218 people but he gave no further details. So far 18 people have also been confirmed dead in an avalanche that swept through the Mount Everest base camp in the wake of the earthquake. Another 61 people were killed in neighboring India. China reported that 20 people had died in Tibet.
Kathmandu district chief administrator Ek Narayan Aryal said tents and water were being handed out Monday at 10 locations in Kathmandu, but that aftershocks were leaving everyone jittery.
“There have been nearly 100 earthquakes and aftershocks, which is making rescue work difficult. Even the rescuers are scared and running because of them,” he said.
Tens of thousands spent the night sleeping in parks or on a golf course. Others camped in open squares lined by cracked buildings and piles of rubble.
“We don’t feel safe at all. There have been so many aftershocks. It doesn’t stop,” said Rajendra Dhungana, 34, who spent the day with his niece’s family for her cremation at the Pashuputi Nath Temple in Katmandu. “I’ve watched hundreds of bodies burn.”

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A memorial after the quake devastated the country.
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The capital city is largely a collection of small, poorly constructed brick apartment buildings. But outside of the oldest neighborhoods, many in Kathmandu were surprised by how few modern structures collapsed in the quake.
Aid workers also warned that the situation could be far worse near the epicenter. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered near Lamjung, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Kathmandu.
The earthquake was the worst to hit the South Asian nation in more than 80 years. It destroyed swaths of the oldest neighborhoods of Kathmandu and was strong enough to be felt all across parts of India, Bangladesh, China’s region of Tibet and Pakistan.
Nepal’s worst recorded earthquake in 1934 measured 8.0 and all but destroyed the cities of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Patan.
Rescuers aided by international teams spent Sunday digging through rubble of buildings - concrete slabs, bricks, iron beams, wood - to look for survivors. Because the air was filled with chalky concrete dust, many people wore breathing masks or held shawls over their faces.
Hundreds of people in Kathmandu’s western Kalanki neighborhood nervously watched the slow progress of a single backhoe digging into the rubble of the collapsed Lumbini Guest House, once a three-story budget hotel.

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Most areas were without power and water. The United Nations said hospitals in the Kathmandu Valley were overcrowded and running out of emergency supplies and space to store corpses.
Most shops in Kathmandu were closed after the government declared a weeklong period of recovery. Only fruit vendors and pharmacies seemed to be doing business.
“More people are coming now,” fruit seller Shyam Jaiswal said. “They cannot cook so they need to buy something they can eat raw.”
Jaiswal said stocks were running out, and more shipments were not expected for at least a week, but added, “We are not raising prices. That would be illegal, immoral profit.”
The quake will probably put a huge strain on the resources of this impoverished country best known for Everest, the highest mountain in the world. The economy of Nepal, a nation of 27.8 million people, relies heavily on tourism, principally trekking and Himalayan mountain climbing.
The first nations to respond were Nepal’s neighbors - India, China and Pakistan, all of which have been jockeying for influence over the landlocked nation. Nepal remains closest to India, with which it shares deep political, cultural and religious ties.

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Nepalese policemen look for survivors in the debris of a building that collapsed in an earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal ,Sunday, April 26, 2015.
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Other countries sending support Sunday included the United States, Canada, the United Arab Emirates, Britain, Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Israel and Singapore.
An American military plane left Delaware’s Dover Air Force Base for Nepal, carrying 70 people, including a disaster-assistance response team and an urban search-and-rescue team, and 45 tons of cargo, the Pentagon said.

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Some powerful videos saying a lot about this calamity.

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With death toll crossing 5000 and more villages been digged, the good part is the whole world joining hands for rescue efforts:

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We all should donate for nepal victims. but if you are looking for it, here is something you must read:

What You Need To Know Before Donating To Earthquake Relief For Nepal

APRIL 28, 2015 5:46 PM ET
DIANE COLE

Displaced family members with their children in a field opposite the airport in Kathmandu on April 27.

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If you’re thinking about making a donation to help Nepal in the wake of the devastating earthquake, now is the time to act.
Immediate aid is essential, says Center for Global Development fellow Vijaya Ramachandran, who has drawn her conclusions from looking at the earthquake in Haiti and other disasters. “The aid that comes in within the first weeks and even months is of a life-saving nature. That’s the period when the local capacity is almost zero. So outside help is really important.”
And while aid from the U.S. and around the world is coming in, that does not negate the need for additional help. Nongovernmental and nonprofit organizations can allocate their funds more flexibly, to react to immediate or unforeseen needs on the ground, says Julien Schopp, director of humanitarian practice at InterAction, a coalition of aid groups.
But the sheer number of organizations appealing for funds can be overwhelming. Here’s a guide for the bewildered do-gooder
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Check out the charity. To begin with, look at the organization website and see if has a specific page for its Nepal efforts, says Schopp. If it does not, he says, “then the organization is not mandated to spend money there.” Pursue further due diligence about an organization’s track record at such websites as Charity Navigator andGuidestar. The Better Business Bureau has released a list of charities that are providing aid to Nepal and also meet the BBB’s accountability standards.
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Look at the organization’s presence in Nepal. **Make sure the organization has worked in Nepal and has people on the ground there, has relationships with the government and community — and has experience responding to natural disasters. “This isn’t rookie camp,” says Gary Shaye, senior director of humanitarian operations for Save the Children. “It’s not a place to break people in.” For an agency to set up shop in Nepal in the wake of the quake would almost certainly mean high overhead costs and a lack of familiarity with the country. So efforts by newbies, no matter how well-intentioned, could be less effective than promised in their pitch.
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Follow the money. It goes without saying but it’s still worth saying: Beware of appeals that ask you to send money directly to a personal bank account, which can happen not only in email solicitations but in social media campaigns. Don’t by shy about asking questions. “Somebody writing a check should feel it is absolutely their right to know where this money is going and how it is going to be spent,” says Ramachandran. If the website does not provide sufficient information, email or call. “Think of this as a considered purchase,” says Shaye of Save the Children. And always ask for a receipt.
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You can target funds for a particular purpose. Consider if you want your donation to go to a specific purpose in the immediate crisis — or in the rebuilding to come. The dropdown menu at InterAction’s Nepal webpage will direct you to organizations in a number of areas: medical assistance, food aid, supplies for shelter, to name a few.
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Don’t pack up gently used clothes or other donations. **“That’s the worst thing to do,” says Schopp. What you want to send may not be needed. Transportation to Nepal is iffy and cargo space limited. And if relief agencies buy local goods rather than relying on handouts, that will help the economy gain strength.
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Be patient. **The situation in Nepal is chaotic. Aid efforts haven’t yet reached remote areas. “It’s easy to put a journalist in front of rubble saying no one’s doing anything,” says Schopp. But that doesn’t mean donations aren’t being put to use. In Nepal, as with natural disasters in the past, getting aid and supplies to the right places doesn’t happen overnight: "It takes a few days to really kick into gear.

What You Need To Know Before Donating To Earthquake Relief For Nepal : Goats and Soda : NPR

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****Pakistan born in Nepal – Dawn ****
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**“A baby born in a Pakistan Army field hospital in Nepal has been named ‘Pakistan’, said an Inter-Services Public Relations official on Monday. This is the second infant to have been born at the field hospital, which was set up by the Pakistan Army as part of relief efforts in earthquake-struck Nepal.”

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Pakistani Army has been doing a wonderful job for the recovery of disastrous area.. Really heroic and we all should be proud of them once again.

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Amazing story.. Whoever ALLAH protects :alhamd:

“A 22-year-old man who was getting his hair cut at a barber shop when the quake struck was found still sitting upright more than two weeks later when Nepali soldiers pulled his body from a pile of rubble.”

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High in the Himalayas, a Search After the Nepal Quake Yields Grim Results

DANIEL BEREHULAKMAY 5, 2015

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A mother was consoled Tuesday at her son’s funeral in Barpak, Nepal, where assessing damage has been difficult.

BARPAK, Nepal — In this village high above a picturesque valley that lies at the epicenter of the earthquake that flattened much of the country, residents are still finding bodies.
On Tuesday they found that of a 26-year-old man who was getting his hair cut at the village barber shop on April 25 when the mountain shook uncontrollably. He was still sitting upright more than a week later when Nepali soldiers pulled his body from a pile of heavy rubble and put it in a plastic body bag while his father looked on.
The wails of his bereaved mother echoed up and down the mountain. Her neighbors tried to comfort her, knowing there would likely be more sons — and fathers, mothers and daughters — found in the coming days.

I met the soldiers when I arrived here by helicopter Tuesday, having hitched a ride from Pokhara with the Indian military on one of its aid runs. The only other way to get to Barpak, 100 miles northwest of the capital, Kathmandu, is to hike for six hours up a narrow mountain trail popular among visiting trekkers, but now rendered mostly inaccessible by fallen rocks and made more dangerous by persistent aftershocks.
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Because of its inaccessibility, assessing damage and the death toll in Barpak has proved difficult. The village was at the epicenter of the Nepal earthquake.CreditDaniel Berehulak for The New York TimesI quickly learned how to tell when a new tremor was coming: All of the dogs in the village started barking. Then the earth shook.
When the tremors allow for it, the few dozen soldiers here help villagers dig out bodies when they are discovered. It took them almost two hours Tuesday to free the body of Purbahadur Gurung, which was frozen upright in the barbershop. The soldiers covered his head with a white cloth while they worked.

About two dozen neighbors who had been digging with their hands through nearby piles of bricks and stone and wood paused. Farmers who had been ferrying haystack after haystack on their backs, up and down the hills, stopped working to join a 30-minute funeral procession. They carried the man’s makeshift wooden coffin up the mountain to a small cemetery of stone tombs above the village where they burned incense, scattered flowers, said prayers and rested from the digging.
In the capital, Kathmandu, the military and international relief organizations have established aid centers and have begun the difficult task of assessing the damage. The government has tallied the dead — more than 7,000 nationwide.
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Soldiers unearthed the body of a man still upright in a chair at the village barbershop in Barpak. CreditDaniel Berehulak for The New York TimesBut in remote villages like Barpak many are still missing, and the extent of the damage in areas difficult to reach in the best of times remains unknown.

Here in Barpak, a rich agricultural life built on a mountainside plateau has been erased. About 1,200 of the village’s 1,450 buildings are gone or so severely damaged that they might as well be.
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The village was built on the mountain, from the mountain, with most residents building their homes from slabs of heavy stone scraped its sides. But the local stone proved far more vulnerable during the earthquake than fabricated concrete. Wood and stone buildings crumbled easily, collapsing and blanketing the village and its inhabitants in debris. Houses made of concrete largely withstood the earthquake.

The Indian military has provided support to about 60 Nepalese soldiers, coordinating aid from a temporary command post here. They have transported emergency food aid — 60-pound bags of rice, beans and dry goods — by helicopter, but it is barely enough, residents here say. And there is no way to get heavy machinery or construction materials here to provide safe temporary shelter, not to mention to begin rebuilding.

Some families have salvaged corrugated metal sheets from the rooftops to build temporary shelters. They drape the blue and orange plastic sheets dropped by the Nepalese and Indian armies to create tents. The colors of the tarpaulins signal to the air forces overhead that the village has received its allotted aid — for now.

I accompanied the villagers up the mountainside, through the late afternoon chill, as they buried the body of Mr. Gurung.
As the sun began to set behind a mountain on the western side of the valley, the villagers escorted the grieving mother down the hillside trail to the village, where we would all spend the night in tents.

Villagers are afraid to stay in the few buildings that still stand; when the dogs start barking and the earth starts shaking, they, too, can come crashing down.

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I hear today they got hit by another 7.3 magnitude earth quake

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Yes, not an after-shock. Its a totally new earth quake with huge 7.3 magnitude resulting in dozens of deaths.

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Nepal Rattled by Powerful New Earthquake East of CapitalBy ELLEN BARRYMAY 12, 2015

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NEW DELHI — A powerful earthquake shook Nepal on Tuesday, less than three weeks after a devastating temblor there killed more than 8,000 people. Dozens of deaths and more than a thousand injuries were reported.
Residents of Kathmandu, the capital, reported that buildings swayed in the earthquake, which was felt as far away as New Delhi. The United States Geological Survey assigned the quake a preliminary magnitude of 7.3, with an epicenter about 50 miles east of Kathmandu, near the border with China. The April 25 earthquake registered magnitude 7.8 and was centered west of Kathmandu.
“We’re obviously hearing of buildings destroyed, buildings collapsed, buildings falling, we’re hearing about casualties, but the numbers are not known yet,” said Jamie McGoldrick, Nepal resident coordinator for the United Nations. He said several international rescue teams, including American and Indian teams, were still in Kathmandu but had not yet been asked to deploy.
By late afternoon, Nepal’s National Emergency Operation Center had reported 42 deaths and 1,117 injuries.
Four people died in Chautara, a town in the Sindhupalchowk district east of Kathmandu where several buildings collapsed, said Paul Dillon, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration. “A search and rescue crew of some locals and international groups are digging through rubble as best they can,” Mr. Dillon said.
“I can still see massive clouds of mud and dust around, as massive landslides continue to happen,” Bharat Shrestha, who was participating in rescue operations in a town about seven miles west of Chautara, said by telephone. “Concrete houses in Chautara have crumbled, and the main road leading to Chautara is completely blocked with debris.”
Krishna Prasad Gaiwali, the chief district officer in Sindhupalchowk, reported “huge damage in our district.”
Since the April 25 quake, people across Nepal have feared another powerful one, in part because the first one left many buildings cracked and unstable. An American structural engineer who examined buildings in Bhaktapur, a city near Kathmandu, said that he believed one-third of the buildings he had seen would have to be demolished.
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Nevertheless, many families have moved back into their apartments, after living under tents for the week after the first quake.
Jasmine Avgerakis, an emergency response manager for Mercy Corps who arrived in Chautara just hours before the quake struck Tuesday, said rescue workers were bringing injured people on stretchers to a tent hospital that the Red Cross had set up in an open field after the April quake.
Ranveig Tveitnes, the deputy team leader of the Norwegian Red Cross team in Chautara, said that 40 injured people had been brought to the hospital by midafternoon, and more were coming in the evening.
Ms. Avgerakis described locals, loaded up with blankets, streaming into the open field. “I don’t think anybody’s going to be sleeping in their homes tonight,” she said.
Ian Norton, foreign medical team coordinator for the World Health Organization, said people in many parts of Nepal had begun salvaging things from “very precarious houses” and could have been injured in Tuesday’s quake. There were reports of deaths in Bhaktapur, where a number of unstable houses had fallen.

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A US army helicopter has gone missing in the mountaneous region. Search underway.

U.S. helicopter missing in NepalBy Barbara Starr and Theodore Schleifer, CNN
Updated 1:53 PM ET, Tue May 12, 2015

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Washington (CNN)A U.S. military helicopter with as many as eight people on board has gone missing in Nepal as marine personnel worked to help the people recovering from the recent earthquake.

Military officials are searching for a marine light attack helicopter that went missing Tuesday near Charikot, Nepal, Pentagon officials said, at around 10 p.m. Japan Standard Time. The aircraft was assisting with disaster relief as earthquake have struck the south Asian nation, which killed thousands late last month. Another earthquake there on Tuesday killed at least 68 more.

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Nepalese military service members unload supplies from a UH-1Y Huey in Charikot, Nepal, May 5, Nepal, May 5.

“On May 12, at approximately 10 p.m. JST, a UH-1Y Huey with, Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 469 in support of Joint Task Force 505 was declared missing while supporting Operation Sahayogi Haat,” U.S. Navy Capt. Chris Sims told CNN in a statement Tuesday.
About 300 American personnel are on the ground in Nepal.
The cause of the disappearance was not immediately clear Tuesday afternoon and the incident is under investigation.