100 bodies found in quake-hit Nepal’s trekking region
Nepali police and local volunteers found the bodies of about 100 trekkers and villagers buried in an avalanche set off by last month s devastating earthquake and were digging through snow and ice for signs of dozens more missing, officials said on Monday. The government began asking foreign teams to wrap up search and rescue operations, as hope of finding people alive in the rubble receded They can leave. If they are also specialists in clearing the rubble, they can stay," Rameshwor Dangal, an official at Nepal ’s home ministry, told Reuters on MondayThe trekkers bodies were recovered on Saturday and Sunday at the Langtang village,. It was not clear how many people were in Langtang at the time of the avalanche but other officials said about 120 more people could be buried under the snow "We had not been able to reach the area earlier because of rains and cloudy weather," Uddhav Bhattarai, the district s senior bureaucrat, said by telephone on Sunday. The chief of India...