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| A Week After Nepal Earthquake, |
| A Week After Nepal Earthquake, a Tale of Two Villages
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| NEPAL
, 2-May-2015
12:7:44 PM |
| The Villages of Laprak and Barpak in Nepal resemble ghost towns from the air. A week after the killer quake struck, both villages located high up in the upper Himalayas that bore the brunt of nature's wrath are deserted.
As the Indian Air Force's Mi17 helicopter carrying with it food , medicines and tarpaulin circles over a makeshift helipad in a potato field, hundreds sheltering in a makeshift tented colony several kilometers away from Laprak make a dash to see what the helicopter has brought.
Within moments of touchdown villagers join army men to help hurriedly unload the supplies. A human chain is formed as everyone helps unload several meters of light ground cover sheet, instant noodles, flour, chocolates and tarpaulin sheets.
The tarpaulin roof offers only a temporary solution to just keep the rain out, in winter this area will be covered in snow.
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"We have been living in fear as there were tremors last night as well. We can't think of going back inside any house now," says a quake victim.
Helicopters are the only lifeline to these remote villages. Weather can change quickly here and everyone knows that can quickly being their lifeline to a stop.
"Helicopters are going to be the main lifeline till routes are restored which may take time given the scale of the disaster. The intense aerial operations will continue for at least another fortnight in my opinion" says Lieutenant Colonel Arvind Saini with the Indian army's aviation.
In the nearby Barpak - a village close to the epicentre - has been reduced to rubble. 54 people have died here and a dozen more are reported missing.
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