17:16 08/06/2015
Kathmandu - Nepali soldiers and police have recovered the bodies
of 53 trekkers and villagers buried in avalanches set off by an
earthquake in April, and were digging through snow and rocks with
shovels and hoes on Monday for signs of more victims.
Search and
rescue operations had been suspended in the village of Langtang, 60km
north of Kathmandu, last month as fresh avalanches buried some of the
128 bodies that had been recovered, putting rescue workers in danger.
Soldiers
from the army's disaster response unit resumed the search after the
risk from avalanches abated and recovered 53 bodies including three of
foreign trekkers over the weekend, the military said in a statement.
"It
is still confusing whether all these 53 bodies are new or also included
those that were washed away by the avalanche after being recovered
earlier," army spokesperson Brigadier General Jagadish Chandra Pokharel
told Reuters.
Uddhav Bhattarai, the most senior bureaucrat of
Rasuwa district where Langtang is located, said scores of soldiers,
joined by police and villagers were looking for more than a dozen
trekkers and Nepalis missing since the April 25 earthquake.
Rasuwa,
bordering Tibet, is one of the areas hardest hit by the earthquake and
another on May 12 which together claimed 8 773 lives in Nepal's worst
natural disaster on record.
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