{"id":48960,"date":"2015-05-12T01:24:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T17:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=48960"},"modified":"2015-05-12T01:25:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T17:25:58","slug":"fresh-avalanches-force-workers-to-call-off-search-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/12\/fresh-avalanches-force-workers-to-call-off-search-in-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh avalanches force workers to call off search in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color:#fff;display:inline-block;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#a7a7a7;font-size:11px;width:100%;max-width:594px;\">\n<div style=\"overflow:hidden;position:relative;height:0;padding:66.498316% 0 0 0;width:100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/471914136?et=lTcgdJJmSud07bwWiOhfIw&#038;viewMoreLink=on&#038;sig=2e9SABufZziJ6mTgZpwrN4ZQ0oXeCpgMHGEP4tk_RIc=&#038;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"display:inline-block;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\">\n<div style=\"padding:0;margin:0 0 0 10px;text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/471914136\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">View image<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">gettyimages.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>KATHMANDU, Nepal \u2014 Fresh avalanches forced rescuers in a village buried by a landslide in northern Nepal to stop searching for bodies in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake, officials said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The avalanches on Friday and Saturday made the work dangerous for police and army rescuers, and they moved to higher and safer ground, said government administrator Gautam Rimal.<\/p>\n<p>Weather conditions also deteriorated with continuing rainfall and fog, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The April 25 earthquake killed more than 8,000 people and injured more than 16,000 others, as it flattened mountain villages and destroyed buildings and archaeological sites in the Himalayan region.<\/p>\n<p>So far, 120 bodies have been recovered from Langtang Valley, a scenic village on a popular trekking route located about 60 kilometers (35 miles) north of Nepal&#8217;s capital, Kathmandu.<\/p>\n<p>Among the bodies were those of nine foreigners, and it was still not clear how many people were buried in the village that was covered by a mudslide set loose by the magnitude-7.8 quake.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of people have been left homeless and are still living in tent camps scattered across central and northern Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>About 1,000 of them lined up outside a camp in Bhaktapur, a suburb east of Kathmandu, on Sunday to get a small sack of food and supplies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been standing in the line for hours so I can pick up food for my family. I am living with my parents, my wife, children and brothers in the open and are totally dependent on these relief materials,&#8221; said Ramesh Boyaju, 27, a transport worker who has been without job for two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Another resident, Rupesh Sayaju, said the quake reduced his four-story house to 1 \u00bd floors. &#8220;We were staying on the ground floor of the damaged house but it flooded last night. Now we have no place to go. We are now in the open,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>People waiting in line received a sack of rice, lentils, cooking oil, toothpaste, brush and a towel by members of the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation, one of the many international organizations that have been working to help people in Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>U.N. officials say the international response to the humanitarian crisis has been slow, with hundreds of thousands of people in need of shelter before monsoon rains begin next month.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. estimates that as many as 8 million people have been affected by the earthquake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View image | gettyimages.com KATHMANDU, Nepal \u2014 Fresh avalanches forced rescuers in a village buried by a landslide in northern &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":49030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-w","mauthors-binaj-gurubacharya","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}