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Riot police intervene as anger erupts among Nepal quake survivors

– Resources stretched –

The Nepalese army said that an improvement in the weather should help efforts to reach rural areas.

“We are moving forward with intensive rescue operations today,” said Nepalese army spokesman Jagdish Pokharel.

“We are stretching our resources to reach out to as many areas as possible. The weather today has improved so we hope to help more victims today. Helicopters have been deployed to bring the injured to hospital.”

An army helicopter reached the scene of an avalanche in the Ghoratabela district on Tuesday afternoon in a region that is popular with foreign trekkers.

The scale of casualties was unknown but 18 survivors had been rescued and there were believed to be 200-250 people in the area, said Gautam Rimal, a senior local official.

Nepal’s only international airport on the outskirts of Kathmandu has been operating round-the-clock to accommodate the arrival of military planes carrying aid.

Among the arrivals was a British RAF C-17 flight that was bringing 1,100 shelter kits and over 1,700 solar lanterns, along with a team of Gurkha engineers – the famed army unit that hails from Nepal.

The quake is a serious blow to the economy of the impoverished nation, already reeling from a decade-long civil war that ended in 2006, with one estimate putting the cost of reconstruction at $5 billion.

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