Weather hits bid to rescue quake victims
BaD weather is hampering efforts to help thousands of homeless victims of a powerful earthquake in the Himalayas.
Rescuers have struggled to reach victims who have spent the nights since Sunday’s quake outdoors in the mountains of India, Nepal and Tibet.
Rescue teams with helicopters and earth movers ferried supplies and dug through mudslides trying to reach villages cut off by the quake that killed 53 people and damaged more than 100,000 homes.
Three emergency workers were killed in the frantic rescue effort, Indian officials said. More than 6,000 troops were working to rescue scores of people trapped under wreckage.