Zeker 7500 doden na zware aardbeving in Nepal

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Op woensdag 29 april 2015 16:16 schreef maily het volgende:

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Het klinkt een beetje als "schiet alsjeblieft op, deze mensen gaan vóór ... "

Begrijp me niet verkeerd; het is natuurlijk verschrikkelijk!

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Op donderdag 30 april 2015 14:42 schreef Bosbeetle het volgende:
Toch hoop ik voor Nepal dat ze snel weer toeristen kunnen toelaten, het is toch het hoofdinkomen van dat land. Voor de rest hebben ze niets.

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Op donderdag 30 april 2015 16:00 schreef Duikbril112 het volgende:
Hoe snel trillt de grond eigenlijk bij zo'n aardbeving? Want in die filmpjes zie dat eigenlijk helemaal niet goed.

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Op donderdag 30 april 2015 16:06 schreef Duikbril112 het volgende:

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Dat kunnen ze wel effe vergeten nu voorlopig vrees ik. Heel het land in puin... dat gaat wel effe inboeten aan toerisme waarschijnlijk, gezien veel bezienswaardigheden verwoest zijn natuurlijk.

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Op donderdag 30 april 2015 16:32 schreef xzaz het volgende:
"Fons en Rosanne"

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Op donderdag 30 april 2015 16:37 schreef waht het volgende:

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Haal onze jongens en meiden terug!!!1111~~!

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Op donderdag 30 april 2015 16:44 schreef remlof het volgende:

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Vooral onze pompom.

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Op donderdag 30 april 2015 14:39 schreef waht het volgende:

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Nee, ze moeten gewoon niet zo janken. Er zijn duizenden mensen dood en tienduizenden dakloos.

Meneer en mevrouw de toerist mogen wachten.

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Op donderdag 30 april 2015 19:07 schreef Houtenbeen het volgende:

LIVE footage of earthquake in Kathmandu

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Op donderdag 30 april 2015 19:07 schreef Houtenbeen het volgende:

LIVE footage of earthquake in Kathmandu

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Vrouw uit Kerkrade overleden in Nepal

De familie van de 53-jarige Uschi Dorweiler uit Kerkrade heeft vanochtend bekendgemaakt dat hun echtgenote en moeder is overleden als gevolg van de aardbeving in Nepal. Het gezin Dorweiler maakte een trektocht door de Langtang-vallei toen het land vorige week getroffen werd door de zware aardbeving waarbij in totaal bijna 6000 slachtoffers vielen.

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Op vrijdag 1 mei 2015 12:00 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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Op vrijdag 1 mei 2015 13:39 schreef PirE het volgende:

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De eerste Nederlandse dode, nu is het een echte ramp.
Vanavond bij Pauw de buren van het slachtoffer en verder reacties van mensen die wandelen, "ik wandel best veel, het komt nu wel erg dichtbij".

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Op vrijdag 1 mei 2015 12:00 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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NorthmenPK twitterde op maandag 27-04-2015 om 21:13:22 #Annapurna circuit, two Germans, a Belgian with his Australian girlfriend, two Dutch and another hiker probably died on a high pass. reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 1 mei 2015 13:42 schreef Pannenkoekenmix het volgende:

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Op wikipedia staat dat er twee Nederlanders overleden zijn. De bron daarvan is twitter.

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NorthmenPK twitterde op maandag 27-04-2015 om 21:13:22 #Annapurna circuit, two Germans, a Belgian with his Australian girlfriend, two Dutch and another hiker probably died on a high pass. reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 1 mei 2015 13:50 schreef PirE het volgende:

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Probably is niet confirmed. Die Nederlanders bij de poolcirkel zijn waarschijnlijk dood maar die zijn nog steeds vermist.

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Op zaterdag 2 mei 2015 09:36 schreef Basp1 het volgende:
Een stukje wetenschap achter deze beving:

http://www.npowetenschap.(...)ing-Nepal-kaart.html

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Ook kan een geoefend geofysicus of geoloog volgens Govers uit de foto afleiden dat Kathmandu maar liefst een meter naar het zuiden is opgeschoven.

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Op zaterdag 2 mei 2015 09:43 schreef SeLang het volgende:

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Nepal government criticised for blocking earthquake aid to remote areas | World news | The Guardian

Finance secretary denies material is subject to import duties, as police stop private aid trucks and state orders all overseas money to be paid into its fund


Finance secretary denies material is subject to import duties, as police stop private aid trucks and state orders all overseas money to be paid into its fund

The Nepali government is increasingly under fire for blocking private initiatives bringing desperately needed assistance to remote areas, and allegedly obstructing the flow of relief to the country.

Suman Prasad Sharma, the Nepali finance secretary, on Saturday denied charges made by NGOs and top international officials that the government was levying import taxes on aid or had blocked consignments.

According to reports in local media, hundreds of tons of vital supplies have been stopped at the Indian border.

One report quoted a local customs official at the frontier saying he had no orders to allow the relief through untaxed.

On Friday, Nepal was reported to have exempted only tarpaulins and tents from import taxes, prompting UN resident representative Jamie McGoldrick to warn the government to loosen customs restrictions to deal with the increasing flow of relief material.

“They should not be using peacetime customs methodology,” he told Reuters news agency.

Sharma, the bureaucrat, said the charges were unfounded.

“We haven’t sent back anything, and there’s no duty to pay on anything. These charges are completely irresponsible and I refute them,” Sharma said.

The death toll in the disaster has now reached 6,900, with more than 15,000 injured. Hundreds of thousands of homeless, including many injured, have yet to be reached.

However, it is increasingly clear that, as part of a broader effort to centralise the relief effort, police are stopping trucks loaded with supplies by private well-wishers headed to badly hit areas.

Earlier this week, with international aid agencies facing massive logistic and bureaucratic difficulties, these small-scale local initiatives were reaching distant villages first.

“They are not suffering so they do not care. They are just out to get the foreign money for themselves,” said Rashmita Shastra, a healthworker in a village in Sindhulpalchowk district, 50 miles from Kathmandu, which had been due to receive a shipment of aid that was eventually blocked by authorities because it was “unofficial”.

The village, where seven people died and which has been almost entirely destroyed, has not yet been visited by any government official or politician, though one aid agency managed to distribute some tarpaulins and rice late last week.

Even villagers in accessible locations beside roads only 30 miles from Kathmandu told The Observer they had yet to be contacted.

Hundreds of helicopter flights have also been paid for by private individuals, religious foundations or businesses. It is unclear whether these will be allowed to continue.

Officials said private initiatives would be permitted if they were coordinated with local administrators.

Aanand Mishra, who launched a civil society and business initiative called Operation Relief Nepal immediately after the earthquake, said a new directive from the government ordering all money from overseas transferred into accounts opened after the disaster to be paid into the government’s own relief fund, had badly hit aid deliveries.

His organisation, backed by the Nepalese federation of chambers of commerce, had raised $50,000 (£33,000), which had already been spent on assistance.

Related: Nepal quake: aid finally begins to arrive in remote villages, sent by locals

“We could raise so much more but no one overseas wants to just transfer money to the government, so none of my foreign friends can help,” Mishra said.

Officials have also been criticised for failing to prepare for the crisis or to properly coordinate aid in its aftermath. Protocol and bureaucratic turf fights have weakened the response, while Sushil Koirala, the 75-year-old prime minister, appears to be unable to cut through the administrative chaos.

Koralia was heckled by angry crowds in the streets of Kathmandu last week amid mounting anger across the country.

More than 130,000 houses were destroyed in the quake, according to the UN humanitarian office.

Almost nothing is known about the situation in the badly hit Langtang area, where some western trekkers are thought to be trapped.

Udda Prasad Batwai, the most senior local official in Langtang, said that 250 people are missing, including 100 foreigners.

“Whatever we have, we are distributing. We are all working together, local NGOs, international NGOs and the administration. But there are lot of people who we can’t get to with our resources so small,” Batwai said.

The UN has estimated the quake affected 8.1 million people, more than a quarter of Nepal’s population of 27.8 million.

Many mountain roads, often treacherous at the best of times, remain blocked by landslides, making it extremely difficult for supply trucks to get to the higher Himalayan foothills.

“We definitely need more helicopters,” Ertharin Cousin, executive director of the UN’s World Food Program, said.

Krishan Gyawali, top official of Sindhupalchowk district, said at least 300 people were still stranded at Tatopani, a bazaar town on Nepal’s border with Tibet.

Gyawali said the district had only received very little relief assistance from the central government.

“We haven’t been able to reach to every place in the district. People are angry with us but what can we do, whatever is possible we are doing our best,” he said.

However, police spokesman Kamal Jung Bam said that distribution of relief was now of “significantly larger scale” than earlier in the week.

“Helicopters and vehicles have been ferrying relief packages from Kathmandu towards many parts of the country, especially to the most affected villages,” he said.

US military aircraft and personnel were to arrive in Kathmandu on Saturday to help in relief operations. One of their tasks would be to deal with the growing piles of aid material.

Some of the relief material for survivors was being held up at the country’s only international airport because of customs bottlenecks, the United Nations said on Saturday.

Nepali government officials have said efforts to step up the pace of delivery of relief material to remote areas were frustrated by a shortage of supply trucks and drivers, many of whom had returned to their villages to help their families.

“Our granaries are full and we have ample food stock, but we are not able to transport supplies at a faster pace,” said Shrimani Raj Khanal, a manager at the Nepal Food Corp.

Army helicopters have air-dropped instant noodles and biscuits to remote communities but people need rice and other ingredients to cook a proper meal, he said.
Bron: www.theguardian.com

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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Three people were pulled alive from the rubble of their home eight days after Nepal's devastating earthquake, as a supply logjam threatened to hamper disaster relief efforts bolstered by the arrival of U.S. aircraft and troops.

The small-scale rescue, announced on Sunday by a home ministry official, brought fresh hope to a badly-hit district northeast of the capital Kathmandu, but about 50 bodies were also discovered on a northern trekking route obliterated by an avalanche that the April 25 quake triggered.

That increased the death toll to 7,059, and the figure was likely to rise further as an entire village was carried away by the same avalanche and scores more people - both locals and foreign trekkers - were missing, officials said.

U.S. military aircraft and personnel were due to begin helping ferry relief supplies to stricken areas outside the capital, a U.S. Marines spokeswoman said, after arriving in Nepal on Sunday, a day later than expected.

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ViaPerini141 twitterde op zondag 03-05-2015 om 19:12:49 #Langtang Il villaggio era abitato da 500 persone. Non è rimasto nulla, spazzato via da una valanga di terra e sassi http://t.co/fEIHycvZaU reageer retweet

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ViaPerini141 twitterde op zondag 03-05-2015 om 19:06:45 #Nepal. Questo è ciò che resta del villaggio di #Langtang completamente distrutto a causa del terremoto. #tgr 19.30 http://t.co/aHtbNUFj5M reageer retweet

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Op maandag 4 mei 2015 00:05 schreef Pannenkoekenmix het volgende:
Three rescued eight days after Nepal quake as U.S. Marines arrive

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Ik kom ook deze berichten tegen, dit gaat waarschijnlijk over datzelfde dorpje als die ook in het nieuwsartikel genoemd is.

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ViaPerini141 twitterde op zondag 03-05-2015 om 19:12:49 #Langtang Il villaggio era abitato da 500 persone. Non è rimasto nulla, spazzato via da una valanga di terra e sassi http://t.co/fEIHycvZaU reageer retweet

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ViaPerini141 twitterde op zondag 03-05-2015 om 19:06:45 #Nepal. Questo è ciò che resta del villaggio di #Langtang completamente distrutto a causa del terremoto. #tgr 19.30 http://t.co/aHtbNUFj5M reageer retweet