KATHMANDU (Web Desk) – For quake-hit Nepalese, uncertainty reigns. It is unclear what is happening and when help might be on the way.
A man pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building in Kathmandu more than three days after the deadly Nepal earthquake said he drank his own urine to survive.
“I drank my urine to survive,” Rishi Khanal who was rescued after 82 hours told the international media on Wednesday.
He added that he had given up all hope of rescue as his lips cracked and his nails turned white. There were dead bodies around him and a terrible smell. But he kept banging on the rubble all around him and eventually this brought a French rescue team that extracted him after an operation lasting many hours.
He’s now being treated for leg injuries at a hospital in the capital the day after French rescuers found him and brought him out from a collapsed hotel. He had been buried for 82 hours.
Nepali officials conceded they had made mistakes in their initial response to a massive earthquake that has killed more than 5,000 people, as survivors stranded in remote villages and towns waited for aid and relief to arrive on Wednesday. Anger and frustration was mounting steadily, with many Nepalis sleeping out in the open under makeshift tents for a fourth night since Nepal’s worst quake in more than 80 years.
Nepalese riot police struggled Wednesday to hold back thousands of residents trying to leave the earthquake-hit capital Kathmandu as anger mounted at the lack of buses being laid on by the authorities.
Riot police were deployed to the main bus station, near parliament, after large crowds gathered from before dawn following an announcement that extra services would be organised, according to an AFP correspondent at the scene.
