Nepal takes over relief operations

Kathmandu: Nepal on Tuesday deployed thousands of military and police personnel as the government took charge of massive post-quake operations from foreign rescue teams to rehabilitate displaced victims of the devastating temblor that has killed at least 7,611 people, including 41 Indians.

 

A day after the Nepalese government asked rescue teams from India and 33 other countries to leave the Himalayan nation, over 1,31,500 Nepali military and police personnel joined aid operations in different areas.

 

The government said the personnel are aided by more than 100 teams of foreign relief workers in the arduous task that lies before them after the April 25 temblor. Some 11 rescue teams comprising over 500 rescue workers, including India’s NDRF personnel, which had the largest presence in Nepal after the country faced its worst disaster in over 80 years, have left.