Connect Mikey Gatal
WELCOME FRIENDS TO MIKEY GATAL'S WORLD => BREAKING NEWS => Topic started by: erika on April 27, 2015, 08:13:22 AM
-
Kathmandu, Apr 27 (India Today) : The death toll in earthquake-hit Nepal on Monday crossed 3,200 with another 6,000 people injured as rains and fresh tremors hampered rescue efforts to locate survivors trapped under tonnes of rubble of flattened homes and buildings. Highlights
"The death toll has reached 3,218 and over 6,500 are injured," said Rameshwor Dangal, head of the home ministry's national disaster management division.
Officials said five Indians, including the daughter of an Indian embassy employee, were among those killed in the quake.
Thousands of desperate Nepalese huddled under tents and sought scarce food and medical supplies as overwhelmed authorities struggled to care for the wounded and homeless.
Nepal earthquake: Helpline Numbers :
(http://www.tvdaijiworld.com/images3/nepall_042715-5.jpg)
With no electricity, capital Kathmandu resembled a ghost town with rains pounding the city, forcing the closure of the airport where chaotic scenes were witnessed with stranded foreign tourists desperate to go home.
The sick and wounded lay out in the open in the capital, Kathmandu, unable to find beds in the devastated city's hospitals. Surgeons set up an operating theatre inside a tent in the grounds of Kathmandu Medical College.
"We are overwhelmed with rescue and assistance requests from all across the country," said Deepak Panda, a member of the country's disaster management.
Across Kathmandu and beyond, exhausted families whose homes were either flattened or at risk of collapse laid mattresses out on streets and erected tents to shelter from rain.
People queued for water dispensed from the back of trucks, while the few stores still open had next to nothing on their shelves. Crowds jostled for medicine at one pharmacy.
High in the Himalayas, hundreds of foreign and Nepalese climbers remained trapped after a huge avalanche ripped through a base camp for climbers, killing 17 people in the worst single disaster to hit Mount Everest.
A total of 2,460 people were confirmed killed in the 7.9 magnitude quake, making it the worst such disaster to hit Nepal since 1934 when 8,500 died. Thousands more were injured. Another 66 were killed across the border in India and at least another 20 in Tibet, China's state news agency said, pushing the death toll beyond 2,500.
(http://www.tvdaijiworld.com/images3/nepall_042715-1.jpg)
(http://www.tvdaijiworld.com/images3/nepall_042715-2.jpg)
(http://www.tvdaijiworld.com/images3/nepall_042715-3.jpg)
(http://www.tvdaijiworld.com/images3/nepall_042715-4.jpg)
The toll is likely to climb as rescuers struggle to reach remote regions in the impoverished, mountainous country of 28 million people and as bodies buried under rubble are recovered.
With so many people sleeping in the open with no power or water and downpours forecast, fears mounted of major food and water shortages. Across Nepal, hundreds of villages have been left to fend for themselves.
Several countries rushed to send aid and personnel.
India flew in medical supplies and members of its National Disaster Response Force. China sent a 60-strong emergency team. Pakistan's army said it was sending four C-130 aircraft with a 30-bed hospital, search and rescue teams and relief supplies.
A Pentagon spokesman said a US military aircraft with 70 personnel left the United States on Sunday and was due in Kathmandu on Monday. Australia said it was sending a specialist urban search-and-rescue team to Kathmandu at Nepal's request.
Britain, which believes several hundred of its nationals are in Nepal, said it was delivering supplies, medics and search-and-rescue teams.
Nepal earthquake victimsNepal's worst earthquake has killed over 2,500 people and injured thousands, and forced many more on Sunday to camp in the open due to powerful aftershocks.
However, there has been little sign of international assistance on the ground so far, with some aid flights prevented from landing by aftershocks that closed Kathmandu's main airport several times on Sunday.
Avalanche terror
In the Himalayas, hundreds of climbers felt tremors on Sunday powerful enough to send snow and boulders cascading towards them. Another was felt early on Monday.
The huge and deadly avalanche on Saturday triggered by the earthquake caused panic at the Everest base camp, a sprawling "city" of tents from where mountaineers set off for the world's highest peak.
"It was a monstrous sound, like the demons had descended on the mountain," Khile Sherpa, a Nepalese guide said, recalling the moment the avalanche hit.
He was one of the lucky few airlifted to the relative safety of Kathmandu but the disaster has underlined the woeful state of Nepal's medical facilities.
Nepal has only 2.1 physicians and 50 hospital beds for every 10,000 people, according to a 2011 World Health Organization report.
"The earthquake has exposed that Nepal's best public hospital infrastructure has crumbled at a time when it should serve more people in a hurry," said Sarvendra Moongla, a senior surgeon at Bir Hospital's Trauma Centre in Kathmandu, which opened in February.
At the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, bodies, including that of a boy aged about seven, were heaped in a dark room. The stench of death was overpowering.
Outside, a 30-year-old woman who had been widowed wailed: "Oh Lord, why did you take him alone? Take me along with him."
Counting the cost
Rajiv Biswas, Asia Pacific chief economist at business research firm IHS, said long-term reconstruction costs in Nepal using proper building standards for an earthquake zone could be more than $5 billion, or around 20 percent of the country's GDP.
"With housing construction standards in Nepal being extremely low ... the impact of the earthquake has been devastating based on initial reports," he said in an early analysis of the likely damage.
In crowded Kathmandu, many buildings were flattened or badly damaged.
Nepali army officer Santosh Nepal and a group of rescuers worked all night on Saturday to open a passage into a collapsed building in Kathmandu. They used pick axes because bulldozers could not get through the ancient city's narrow streets.
"We believe there are still people trapped inside," he told Reuters, pointing at concrete debris and twisted reinforcement rods where a three-storey residential building once stood.
Among the capital's landmarks destroyed in the earthquake was the 60-metre (200-foot) Dharahara Tower, built in 1832 for the queen of Nepal.
-
let's pray for Nepal
-
so sorry for the people who experienced earthquakes, i saw some videos already. May their souls rest in peace.
-
They may rise from the ruins...
-
hopefully , God Help Us All
-
let's all be prepared. I will have my passport and a bag, ready for a run just in case an earthquake hits California, hope not
-
well pray for the best boss...
-
andami palang nasawi, Rest in Peace po sa lahat
-
Oo mga madami .. buti nalang noong 7.2 noon sa bohol ang bilis namin naka labas sa bahay with my kids
-
Oo mga madami .. buti nalang noong 7.2 noon sa bohol ang bilis namin naka labas sa bahay with my kids
we are so blessed pa din kasi umaga nangyari yun di ba?
must be a scary experience?
-
we are so blessed pa din kasi umaga nangyari yun di ba?
must be a scary experience?
Oo suwerte nga buntag. But kung gabii pato nakuh mag unsa kaha m mga bata sa taas pa naman m mangatug..
-
the feeling ug uyog gyud is so scary for me, mao hadlukan ko mosakay ug airplane and roller coasters
-
the feeling ug uyog gyud is so scary for me, mao hadlukan ko mosakay ug airplane and roller coasters
Me too hadlukan ko ug roller coasters never pami nisakay,ang airplane hadlok but I don't have choose kinahanglan musakay Kay d man ma lakaw ang US ug pilipinas;);););)
-
Me too hadlukan ko ug roller coasters never pami nisakay,ang airplane hadlok but I don't have choose kinahanglan musakay Kay d man ma lakaw ang US ug pilipinas;);););)
nagsuka jud ko una nako sakay ani dear
-
Me too hadlukan ko ug roller coasters never pami nisakay,ang airplane hadlok but I don't have choose kinahanglan musakay Kay d man ma lakaw ang US ug pilipinas;);););)
mao gyud mao agdala na ko ug sleeping pills mosakay sa airplane
-
nagsuka jud ko una nako sakay ani dear
All dear Kay magsuka ug mag sakay ug bus sauna pagbata pako
-
mao gyud mao agdala na ko ug sleeping pills mosakay sa airplane
Maayo man ka mikey Wala mga kiddos pwd sleep Lang sa tanan flyt Kami Dili Kay Naa man bitbit hehehhhe
-
we're very thankful to the muslims..it was a holiday at that time
-
Maayo man ka mikey Wala mga kiddos pwd sleep Lang sa tanan flyt Kami Dili Kay Naa man bitbit hehehhhe
mao sad lagi ba, sana magkaroon din ako ng kids
-
mao sad lagi ba, sana magkaroon din ako ng kids
Darating din ang time na mag karon ka ng kids dear
Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk
-
Darating din ang time na mag karon ka ng kids dear
Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk
kaswerte sa akong ma adopt
-
kaswerte sa akong ma adopt
Swerte jud din ug mag adopt ka kanang ka dugo lang
Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk
-
Swerte jud din ug mag adopt ka kanang ka dugo lang
Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk
lami unta ug sayun ra oi pero lahi ang mo adopt from pther countries yata pero why not some blue eyes na?
-
lami unta ug sayun ra oi pero lahi ang mo adopt from pther countries yata pero why not some blue eyes na?
Oo Y not ug taga diri mas nindot Pud ..unsa man gusto nmo adapon girl or boy
-
Oo Y not ug taga diri mas nindot Pud ..unsa man gusto nmo adapon girl or boy
di man pwede madala na dire kay lahi ang policy sa America to adopt from the Philippines
-
All dear Kay magsuka ug mag sakay ug bus sauna pagbata pako
nah, magdala jud ka dapat bonamine pirmi dear
-
kaswerte sa akong ma adopt
ako nalang adopa boss
-
nah, magdala jud ka dapat bonamine pirmi dear
Naa lagi dear kaso d man imnun pud
-
ako nalang adopa boss
naa ko nafeel ganiha