Nepal Rescue Teams

Nepali rescue teams resumed their search early Saturday for at least 63 people missing after monsoon rains triggered a landslide that swept two buses off a highway and into a river.

All passengers on board the aircraft that crashed in Nepal are feared dead, a government official told ANI today as rescue teams pulled out bodies from the wreckage of the plane that had 22 people, including four Indians,on board.

Swollen rivers, originating in Nepal and flowing through north Bihar, continued to wreak havoc on Saturday when more areas and inhabitants were hit by the floods raising the number of people affected by the calamity to over 73 lakh, said the disaster management department.

Seven children from Nepal were rescued and a man was arrested after a human trafficking racket was busted in Maharajganj by a team of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), a senior official said today.

Rescue teams in Nepal today found the burnt-out wreckage of a passenger plane that went missing in a remote mountainous area with 23 people on board, the aviation minister said.

China today held its biggest-ever mock drill in the northern Hebei Province with relief and rescue workers simulating a 6.6-magnitude earthquake to check their preparedness following Nepal's devastating temblor.

India's disaster response team has reportedly been asked to leave Nepal, a week after the massive earthquake that has left at least 7,000 people dead.

US transport aircraft were to begin shuttling rescue teams and supplies today to remote areas of Nepal that are desperately awaiting aid, nine days after a devastating earthquake that killed over 7,000 people.

Nepal's disaster panel on Sunday recommended that 4,050 foreign rescue and search personnel be sent back as its own security personnel can handle the task of recovering the remaining bodies of people killed in the April 25 earthquake, an official said.

Rescue teams toiled in pouring rain today in the debris left by last week's devastating earthquake in Nepal, but officials said the chances of finding any more survivors were bleak as the death toll neared 5,500.

Sunita Sitoula is one of the lucky few who was literally pulled out from under a heap of rubble on Tuesday night without suffering any injuries at all. She was rescued alive by India's National Disaster Response Force personnel yesterday after being trapped under debris for 50 hours.

Nepal has told foreign search and rescue teams not to come because there are already enough in the earthquake-hit country, a senior UN official said Wednesday.

India, on Tuesday pressed six more teams of NDRF personnel into its relief and rescue operations in Nepal as the Himalayan country struggles to cope in the grim aftermath of the deadly earthquake which has left thousands dead and millions affected.

Taiwan's foreign minister has said that the government of earthquake-devastated Nepal had rejected its offer of a 20-man rescue team, but denied diplomatic pressures were behind the decision.

The Health Ministry will send a team of experts from AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital to Nepal to assess the situation arising due to morbidity and mortality in the wake of the devastating quake in the neighbouring country.

Nepali rescue teams resumed their search early Saturday for at least 63 people missing after monsoon rains triggered a landslide that swept two buses off a highway and into a river.

All passengers on board the aircraft that crashed in Nepal are feared dead, a government official told ANI today as rescue teams pulled out bodies from the wreckage of the plane that had 22 people, including four Indians,on board.

Swollen rivers, originating in Nepal and flowing through north Bihar, continued to wreak havoc on Saturday when more areas and inhabitants were hit by the floods raising the number of people affected by the calamity to over 73 lakh, said the disaster management department.

Seven children from Nepal were rescued and a man was arrested after a human trafficking racket was busted in Maharajganj by a team of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), a senior official said today.

Rescue teams in Nepal today found the burnt-out wreckage of a passenger plane that went missing in a remote mountainous area with 23 people on board, the aviation minister said.

China today held its biggest-ever mock drill in the northern Hebei Province with relief and rescue workers simulating a 6.6-magnitude earthquake to check their preparedness following Nepal's devastating temblor.

India's disaster response team has reportedly been asked to leave Nepal, a week after the massive earthquake that has left at least 7,000 people dead.

US transport aircraft were to begin shuttling rescue teams and supplies today to remote areas of Nepal that are desperately awaiting aid, nine days after a devastating earthquake that killed over 7,000 people.

Nepal's disaster panel on Sunday recommended that 4,050 foreign rescue and search personnel be sent back as its own security personnel can handle the task of recovering the remaining bodies of people killed in the April 25 earthquake, an official said.

Rescue teams toiled in pouring rain today in the debris left by last week's devastating earthquake in Nepal, but officials said the chances of finding any more survivors were bleak as the death toll neared 5,500.

Sunita Sitoula is one of the lucky few who was literally pulled out from under a heap of rubble on Tuesday night without suffering any injuries at all. She was rescued alive by India's National Disaster Response Force personnel yesterday after being trapped under debris for 50 hours.

Nepal has told foreign search and rescue teams not to come because there are already enough in the earthquake-hit country, a senior UN official said Wednesday.

India, on Tuesday pressed six more teams of NDRF personnel into its relief and rescue operations in Nepal as the Himalayan country struggles to cope in the grim aftermath of the deadly earthquake which has left thousands dead and millions affected.

Taiwan's foreign minister has said that the government of earthquake-devastated Nepal had rejected its offer of a 20-man rescue team, but denied diplomatic pressures were behind the decision.

The Health Ministry will send a team of experts from AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital to Nepal to assess the situation arising due to morbidity and mortality in the wake of the devastating quake in the neighbouring country.