New Delhi: The earthquake that devastated Nepal killed 62 people in India, Home Secretary LC Goyal said on Sunday. The reports as of now indicate 62 casualties have taken place,” Goyal said, adding that 259 people were injured. Among the casualties, 46 people died in Bihar and 13 in Uttar Pradesh.
The home secretary said four teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been deployed in the affected areas. If they need any more assistance, we have offered all help,” he added.
The Indian Air Force has fetched 1,935 Indian back from Kathmandu to New Delhi since late Saturday even as its personnel continued with “Operation Maitri” in quake-hit Nepal overnight despite inclement weather, Sitanshu Kar, spokesperson for defence ministry, said on Monday.
The latest plane to land in New Delhi from Kathmandu was a C-17 with 291 passengers on board at 06.30 a.m. In Nepal, IAF personnel had concluded by 8.00 a.m. the five aborted sorties that could not be be undertaken on Sunday due to fresh aftershocks and seven more.
As fresh tremors continued in the early hours of Monday, the Rapid Action Medical Team of the IAF was ready with medicines and equipment to open a first aid unit at Lagankhel on the outskirts of the airport in Kathmandu, Kar said.
“Three doctors and 25 paramediccs will man the centre,” he said adding that six medical teams and an engineer task force, besides blankets, tents and other relief items were being flown in to Nepal on Monday.
Bureau Report
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