Five days on, aid trickles in to Nepal quake epicentre
April 29, 2015 13:33
Aid reached a hilly district near the epicentre of Nepal's earthquake for the first time Wednesday, four days after the quake struck and as the death toll from the disaster reaches 5,006.
But it will still take time for the food and other supplies to reach survivors in remote communities who have been cut off by landslides, warned said Geoff Pinnock, a WorldFood Program emergencies officer.
Nearby, five cargo trucks filled with rice, cooking oil and sugar stood on a grassy field fringed with banana and acacia trees beneath the soaring Himalayas, waiting for a helicopter carry the supplies to remote, quake-hit villages.
Soon, the U.N. food agency was expected to deliver shipments of high-energy food biscuits to be sent out to areas without enough water for cooking, Pinnock said.
The first aid shipments had reached Dhading district, just east of Gorhka, he said. -- AP
But it will still take time for the food and other supplies to reach survivors in remote communities who have been cut off by landslides, warned said Geoff Pinnock, a WorldFood Program emergencies officer.
Nearby, five cargo trucks filled with rice, cooking oil and sugar stood on a grassy field fringed with banana and acacia trees beneath the soaring Himalayas, waiting for a helicopter carry the supplies to remote, quake-hit villages.
Soon, the U.N. food agency was expected to deliver shipments of high-energy food biscuits to be sent out to areas without enough water for cooking, Pinnock said.
The first aid shipments had reached Dhading district, just east of Gorhka, he said. -- AP
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