Relief materials have begun to reach remote regions near the focal point of Saturday’s devastating earthquake in Nepal.As relief efforts continue in the Kathmandu Valley, the United Nations (UN) says the response is broadening to include areas such as Dhading and Gorkha.
The earthquake has claimed thousands of lives as many survivors remain in desperate need of comestibles.
Thousands of people are queuing to board buses and leave the capital, amid fears of further aftershocks.
The government is providing free transport for Kathmandu residents hoping to travel to their hometowns, as school buses have been sent to supplement extensive services.
It is also reported that Police have also been deployed at the main bus station, with thousands of people hoping to leave.
Rescue operations were said to have resumed on Wednesday following bad weather condition.
Report says, a convoy brought rice, oil and sugar to the village of Majuwa, in Gorkha district, and a helicopter is due to fly supplies to the hardest-hit villages of the region.
BBC reports that ”hundreds of thousands of people continue to live in temporary camps in squalid conditions with very little food and water”.
Officials have acknowledged that they have been overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster and that delivering relief to far-flung villages has been challenging.
Army Spokesman, Jagdish Chandra Pokherel said, “The terrain is such that very remote areas take a very long time to reach”, adding “our troops are trying their best.”
On Tuesday, a Nepali-French team pulled a 28-year-old man, Rishi Khanal, from a collapsed apartment block in Kathmandu after he had spent about 80 hours trapped in a room with 3 dead bodies.
On Mount Everest, where the quake triggered an avalanche that killed at least 18 people – all stranded climbers have now been evacuated from base camp as authorities declared an end to the climbing season.