JAJARKOT, Nepal: 36 hours after the disaster struck, search and rescue efforts after an earthquake in Nepal came to an end on Sunday( Nov. 5 ) as the emphasis shifted to helping survivors who were in need of food and shelter.
When the 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck later Friday, at least 157 people were killed in remote eastern regions of the Tibetan nation.
Some victims spent the night outside, their mud homes reduced to heaps of debris.
In the worst-hit Jajarkot neighborhood town of Nalgad, where Mahesh Chanare was getting ready to embalm his father-in-law on Sunday, a number of people passed away.
The 34-year-old locksmith assured AFP that” the rest of my family is safe.”
There is hardly anything to eat, he continued,” but the homes have buried all with them.”
” No aid components have been delivered to us. People in this area are in desperate need of food and shelter.
According to officials, 105 people died in Jajarkot overall, 52 in the nearby Rukum area, and more than 100 were injured. Search and rescue efforts had also been completed.
Gopal Chandra Bhattarai, a spokesman for the provincial authorities, stated that” we are in touch with all places and rescue operations have concluded.”
However, since this is a rural area and there may be some isolated areas from which data has no flowed, we are still on high alert.
A Jajarkot city official named Harish Chandra Sharma said the emphasis was now on helping the victims.
We are attempting to provide comfort supplies to those affected by the earthquake because it has been a difficult day, according to Sharma.
” We need to approach all regions, but some have already been distributed.”