Stopped operations, troops will go back: NDRF DG

May 04, 2015 22:01

India's NDRF today began withdrawal of its men from quake-hit Nepal after the country asked foreign rescue teams to end their work.

"We have begun a phased withdrawal of our units after Nepal made a request for stopping the rescue efforts. The going back will be phased and in the first instance three teams will leave by road to Patna today," NDRF chief O P Singh told PTI.

The NDRF DG, who has been camping in Kathmandu for the last nine days to lead his men, said there is a "very remote possibility to find any survivors now" given that the quake struck the Himalayan nation on April 25.

Singh said the teams of the force "tried their best to help as many victims as it can" and that they "left no stone unturned to give medical aid and other assistance" to Nepalese people and citizens from other countries.

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