Nepal ruled out the possibility Saturday of finding more survivors buried in the rubble from a massive earthquake that killed more than 6,700 people and devastated vast swathes of one of Asia's poorest countries.
One week on from Nepal's deadliest quake in over 80 years, hopes of detecting more signs of life among the ruins of the capital Kathmandu had all but disappeared and the focus was shifting to reaching survivors in far-flung areas who have yet to receive relief supplies.
The U.N. children's fund UNICEF warned of a race against time to avert an outbreak of disease among the 1.7 million youngsters estimated to be living in the worst-hit areas, with monsoon rains just a few weeks away.
The 7.8-magnitude quake wreaked a trail of death and destruction when it erupted around midday last Saturday, reducing much of Kathmandu to rubble and even triggering a deadly avalanche on Mount Everest.
"It has already been one week since the disaster," home ministry spokesman Laxmi Prasad Dhakal told AFP.
"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."
"... It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings."....I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
Saturday, May 2, 2015
THE LATEST DEATHS FROM THE 7.8 QUAKE IN NEPAL IS 6,700 DEATHS AFTER 1 WEEK OF THE MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE THAT STARTED FROM THE MOUNT EVEREST MOUNTAIN RANGE
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