Kathmandu : The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on Monday said conducting salvage operations in the earthquake-hit Himalayan country is becoming a time consuming affair as the collapse pattern of the buildings here is a lot more different and unique from what the force has experienced earlier.
NDRF Director General O P Singh, camping here since Sunday to coordinate efforts between Indian rescuers and those from the Nepalese side, said the operations here are tougher than what his men did to ensure relief and rescue in the flood-hit areas of Kashmir valley last year.
The retrieval of the alive or dead is a difficult task in Nepal and it is taking time. This is because the collapse of the standing structures and buildings is different from what we have seen in India. The buildings have gone down badly and we have to drill holes in maximum number of cases to go through concrete slabs or walls and get inside the rubble, Singh told the Press Trust of India.
Meanwhile, NDRF personnel retrieved 11 people alive and recovered sixty bodies from the debris here.
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