Nepal declines foreign rescue help, South Korea says it is 'negotiating'
Officials said Nepal’s security agencies can handle the operation as 517 foreign nationals remain missing and the government seeks cash aid through one fund.
- Triggered by a glacier collapse on Wednesday, devastating flash floods killed more than 500 people in Nepal and Tibet, leaving nearly 3,000 others missing across the region.
- Poor weather forced authorities to suspend search operations on Saturday in the badly hit Rasuwa district, where fog and rain hampered visibility, Narendra Pariyar, the district's top bureaucrat, told Reuters.
- Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal requested specialized international assistance for tunnel rescues and DNA identification, stating, "We have already made requests for such specialised services and technical assistance in areas where we don't have enough expertise."
- India dispatched an 11-member specialist team including tunnel-rescue specialists and medical personnel, while sending three relief flights carrying about 60 tonnes of supplies to support recovery operations.
- Finance Minister Swarnim Wagle told Reuters that Nepal needs about $4 billion to $5 billion to rebuild, cautioning that "This is just an estimate. Loss and damage is being assessed.
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China calls for urgent aid for Nepal disaster-hit areas
Nepal needs help to reopen transport and communication links as well as to identify the deceased.
After the huge torrential flood in the Himalayas between Nepal and China, rescue forces continue to search for more than 2,500 missing persons. "A new tidal wave threatens the border area with China, reports correspondent Padma Rao.
Nepal stated that it needs foreign assistance in specific technical and professional areas where it lacks expertise, but that it does not yet need external search and rescue teams.
As the death toll from massive floods in the Himalayan mountain region mounts, the Nepalese government has partially altered its existing policy of refusing assistance from foreign search and rescue personnel. According to the Nepalese media outlet Kathmandu Post on the 29th (local time), the government has decided to provide limited support from foreign experts in three specific areas: the rescue of hydroelectric power plant tunnels in flood-af…
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