Nepal troops ready aid for remote quake-hit villages
Source: yahoo
Preparing to make a push into the most isolated parts of quake-devastated Nepal, soldiers on Tuesday were readying food, water and other emergency supplies to be loaded onto helicopters in this small town near the earthquake's epicenter.
Gorkha, which would barely count as a village in much of the world, is the district's administrative, transport and trading center for surrounding tiny villages. It was being used as a staging post to get rescuers and supplies to those remote communities, some of which are believed to be nearly completely destroyed. The death toll from Saturday's magnitude-7.8 quake rose past 4,400, officials said.
"In the rural areas, 90 percent of the people have been affected by this calamity," district official Surya Mohan Adhikari said. "They have lost their homes and livestock, they have no way of getting food."
"It is very difficult to reach them," he added. "They are cut off by road slides on the mountain roads, and the wind and rain is making it difficult for helicopters to land."
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