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Another IAF aircraft carrying about 200 stranded Indians is expected to arrive later tonight in Delhi. #NepalEarthquake
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Vikas Swarup @MEAIndia · 9h 9 hours ago
#NepalEarthquake C-130J carrying stranded Indians has landed at Palam a short while ago.
>>55 Indians rescued, now landed at Palam. This included M J Akbar of BJP who described conditions horrific and panic everywhere.
RT @eoiktmnp 312 stranded Indians evacuated from Nepal in 3 IAF flights carrying 52, 100 and 160 Indians #NepalEarthquake
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Vikas Swarup @MEAIndia · 9h 9 hours ago
285 NDRF team members have been flown in from India in 3 IAF aircrafrts to assist Nepal Army in rescue operations @MEAIndia #NepalEarthquake
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One only hopes Chinese did not cause this. God knows what they are up to in those mountains. Tibet was taken in the 50s, Nepal always a prime candidate.
Massive work in line for RR Teams for next two days or so.
Search for survivors
Sanitation
Disposal of dead bodies
Treatment of Injured, medicines, ORS
Temporary shelters for survivors who lost their homes
Provisioning of Food, water for survivors
Clearing of debris from roads and making it useful for movement.
(A) Evac efforts:-
First aircraft with 52 PAX arrived,
Second with 100 and third with 160 have left Kathmandu.
A fourth aircraft with 160 is expected to leave by about 1 am tonight.
Another ten flights will take place on 26 April starting from 8 am with a combined capacity of 1500.
(B) Contact details
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Embassy of India Kathmandu Control room numbers are +977- 012081148 and 012081141, +977-9818968752, 9818968780
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Ministry of External Affairs
Jawaharlal Nehru Bhawan
New Delhi
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An avalanche triggered by Nepal's massive earthquake slammed into a section of the Mount Everest mountaineering base camp, killing at least 17, injuring 61 and leaving an unknown number of climbers and guides unaccounted for on other routes, an official said Sunday.
Twenty-two of the most seriously injured were taken by helicopter to Pheriche village, the nearest medical facility. However, bad weather and communications were hampering more helicopter sorties, said Ang Tshering of the Nepal Mountaineering Association.
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An avalanche triggered by Nepal's massive earthquake slammed into a section of the Mount Everest mountaineering base camp, killing at least 17, injuring 61 and leaving an unknown number of climbers and guides unaccounted for on other routes, an official said Sunday.
Twenty-two of the most seriously injured were taken by helicopter to Pheriche village, the nearest medical facility. However, bad weather and communications were hampering more helicopter sorties, said Ang Tshering of the Nepal Mountaineering Association.
Fennecs.
The environmental & rescue costs are becoming higher than the tourism income from Everest climbers. Time to close this shop for non Indian subcontinent people.
Worst affected in that 6.9 Quake was Indian State of Sikkim. Indian Army ran rescue and relief work with abt 22 sorties of helis. Approx 100 dead with six+ in Nepal and rest in Sikkim which sustained extensive infrastructure damage including roads. The depth of quake was about 20.7 Kms below .
Compare to that this quake was shallow at abt 2.5 Km below earth and with high intensity at 7.9 to 8.1 Richter scale. Ground acceleration will be more in this type of quake causing extensive surface damage.
It is also reported that Majauli Island has shifted/risen few inches. Yet to get reconfirmation.
GoI has announced a compensation of Rs. 2 lakh to families of those who lost their lives in the Earthquake across parts of India.
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#NepalEarthquake Four IAF aircraft have returned from Kathmandu with a total of 540 stranded Indians. More flights planned for day
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Vikas Swarup @MEAIndia · 3h 3 hours ago
#NepalEarthquake Update: 4 flights have returned from KTM with stranded Indians. Ten flights planned for day with personnel and relief
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#NepalEarthquake One IL-76 brought back 152 passengers on board from Kathmandu to Palam
#NepalEarthquake India will be augmenting rescue efforts by pressing into service 4 more heptrs including 2 IAF ALH Dhruvs later in the day.
#NepalEarthquake 3 more MI17 heptrs will take off from Gorakhpur as soon as the 5, now airborne, land at Kathmandu.
I think the best help they can get is from China. Not only is China right next to Nepal, the 2008 Shichuan Earthquake happened in remote area as well. So China has pretty good experience with this.
Casualty figure just creeping up at 1910 in Nepal so far. Reports from Rural areas of Nepal trickling in. In India , Bihar had most casualty, reported at 45,4 NDRF teams at work.
The first NDRF team reached Nepal in the afternoon on a C-130J aircraft with three tonnes of relief material and equipment. Two C-17 Globemaster aircraft — one with a mobile hospital – and another with three more NDRF teams left New Delhi later in the evening. A fourth aircraft left from Bhatinda airbase.
Excellent reporting. What was this magical fourth aircraft and why did it carry more people AND cargo than the others combined? C17?