Miracle survivor as frustration mounts in Nepal (Updated)
A 15-year old boy has been pulled from a collapsed building after five days. Meanwhile, desperate survivors of an earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people have clashed with riot police in Nepal's capital on Wednesday.
A 15-year old boy has been pulled from a collapsed building after five days. Meanwhile, desperate survivors of an earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people have clashed with riot police in Nepal's capital on Wednesday.
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Nepalese police push back residents who began protesting after waiting for hours in line to board buses back to other towns and villages from Kathmandu on April 29, 2015. Nepalese riot police struggled to hold back thousands of residents trying to leave the earthquake-hit capital Kathmandu as anger mounted at the lack of buses being laid on by the authorities. AFP PHOTO / PRAKASH MATHEMA
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Miracle survivor: Teen found alive 5 days after quake
A U.S. doctor attends to Pemba Tamang inside an ambulance after being rescued by Nepalese policemen and U.S. rescue workers from a building that collapsed five days ago in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, April 30, 2015. Crowds cheered Thursday as Tamang was pulled, dazed and dusty, from the wreckage of a seven-story Kathmandu building that collapsed around him five days ago when an enormous earthquake shook Nepal. (AP Photo / Manish Swarup)
Kathmandu, April 30, 2015, AFP –Rescuers on Thursday pulled a teenage boy out alive from under the wreckage of a guesthouse in Nepal five days after it collapsed in a massive weekend earthquake.
Police said the survivor was a 15-year-old Nepalese boy who had been staying at the guesthouse on the outskirts of Kathmandu when the 7.8-magnitude quake hit on Saturday.
"A 15-year-old boy has been rescued from the rubble of a lodge called Hilton Guesthouse," said police spokesman Kamal Singh Bam.
Grainy broadcast footage showed a crowd of rescuers trying to bring the youngster out of the rubble of the guesthouse in the Gongabu district of the ruined capital before police confirmed he had been pulled out."We are awaiting more details," he added, identifying the boy as Pemba Lama.
The mud-caked teenager was fitted with a neck brace and hooked up to an intravenous drip at the scene before being lifted on a stretcher into an ambulance that then raced to hospital.
The teenager was the latest miracle survivor to be rescued in the devastated Himalayan nation after Nepalese and French emergency workers pulled a 28-year-old man alive from the rubble late on Tuesday.
Nepal quake survivors clash with riot police, UN seeks $415 mn
Kathmandu, April 29, 2015, AFP – Desperate survivors of an earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people clashed with riot police in Nepal's capital on Wednesday, as the United Nations appealed for $415 million for the devastated Himalayan nation.
Supplies of food and water are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in ruined Kathmandu, home to some 2.5 million before it was shattered by Saturday's 7.8 magnitude quake.
Nepalese villagers wait for relief aid from an Indian Army helicopter at Uiya village, in northern-central Gorkha district on April 29, 2015. Hungry and desperate villagers rushed towards relief helicopters in remote areas of Nepal, begging to be airlifted to safety, four days after a monster earthquake killed more than 5,000 people. AFP PHOTO / SAJJAD HUSSAIN
Desperate to leave, thousands of people gathered outside the main bus station after the government promised to lay on special services to far-flung rural areas.
But when the buses failed to materialise, anger surged and scuffles broke out between the crowds and riot police who were sent to try to contain the situation near parliament.
Some protesters forced a truck carrying drinking water off the road and climbed on top of it, throwing the bottles to the crowd.
"We've been left starving in the cold and the best this government can give us is this queue. Why are they so slow?" asked Rajana as she lined up along with thousands of others for a bus to her home village.
"I keep hearing on the news that all governments and aid agencies are here, but where are they? Our government is totally absent. Forget shelter, they couldn't even give us water," said Rajana, who goes by one name.
A mother carries her son as she walks past a damaged house at Uiya village, in northern-central Gorkha district on April 29, 2015. AFP PHOTO / SAJJAD HUSSAIN
Hundreds of thousands of people across the country settled down for a fifth night under tents. Their homes were either wrecked or were feared to be on the verge of collapse.
But with the number and scale of the aftershocks subsiding, some residents returned to salvage possessions from the ruins of their homes, grabbing everything from fridges to family chickens.
On Wednesday, the United Nations appealed for $415 million for Nepal, saying that around 70,000 houses had been destroyed and another 530,000 damaged.
One estimate has put the cost of reconstruction at $5 billion.
This handout photo taken on April 29, 2015 and released by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) shows Nepalese people clearing rubble in the village of Sathighar, north of Katmandu, left by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake which hit on April 25. AFP PHOTO / Palani Mohan / International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
A total of 5,057 people are known to have died in Nepal and around 100 more in neighbouring India and China.
Around 8,000 were injured while the UN estimates that eight million people have been affected.
Around 1.7 million children are now in urgent need of aid in the worst-hit areas, according to the UN children's agency.
Read our previous Nepal earthquake coverage here: http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/learning-from-news/541227/nepal-quake-death-toll-climbs-to-over-1000
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