Three survive eight days under Nepal quake rubble; but many trekkers dead

Three people were pulled alive from the rubble of their home eight days after Nepal’s devastating earthquake, an official said on Sunday, but rescuers have found about 50 bodies on a popular trekking route that was hit by an avalanche. The current toll of 7,056 dead is likely to rise as an entire village was carried away by the avalanche and many more people are believed to have died, officials said.

All that is left is scattered belongings like bags and coats, all the houses have been thrown down the mountain. There is nothing left. I don’t think anyone can survive that.

Ganga Sagar Pant, the head of the Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal

A home ministry official said police and army rescued three people from the rubble, but no further details were immediately available. In the northern Rasuwa district, a Nepali police team has pulled out the bodies of about 50 people, including some foreign trekkers, from the avalanche-hit area, officials said. The entire village of Langtang was wiped out by the avalanche, where at least 200 other people are still missing, including villagers and trekkers, said Uddhav Bhattarai, the seniormost bureaucrat in the district.

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