In Nepal declared a state of emergency. After the devastating earthquake that occurred this morning, the authorities have asked the international community to urgent humanitarian assistance.
According to recent reports, the death toll in the earthquake exceeded one thousand one hundred people.
Earthquakes of magnitude 7.9 are quite rare, but extremely destructive – it draws the attention of the chief researcher at the Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences Peter Shabalin.
From the aftershocks hit historical part of the Nepalese capital. Destroyed built several centuries ago temples and towers.
At the time of the earthquake in Nepal could be a few dozen Russians – that tourists and mountaineers. With some of them for a long time it was not possible to establish a connection. By the evening it became known that a group of travelers who are in Nepal under the leadership of President Mountaineering Federation of Russia Andrei Volkov got in touch. This was “Echo of Moscow” said Executive Director of the Federation Roman Bryk.
Russian Emergencies Ministry has opened a hotline “by which you can communicate information about our compatriots who were or might be in the disaster zone. Telephone” hot line “is on the site of” Echo of Moscow “. And on the basis of Russian cultural center in Kathmandu organized a camp for Russian citizens may have suffered from elements revelry.
In the Russian Union of Travel Industry confirm the loss of connectivity with four Russians who went hiking around the mountain Arnarpurna in Nepal. According to a spokesman for the PCT Irina Turina, our compatriots independently arrived in Nepal and bought a permit to hike. Their relatives have already appealed to the Russian embassy, but some have not received complete information.
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