The death toll
from Saturday’s earthquake in Nepal has risen.
Reporters have confirmed that a total of 3,218 people in Nepal dead.
Other countries in Asia, such as China and India have reported deaths of 20
from China and 56 from India. Nepal has not had a natural disaster this bad
since 80 years ago. The Nepali government predicts that the death toll will
continue to increase as Nepali Police officials receive information of the
deteriorated countryside that makes up the majority land of Nepal.
Numerous citizens of Nepal have been helping one another by searching for family members
and pulling people out of rubble due to the lack of international rescue teams .
Although there has been success in finding survivors from the earthquake, the
majority that have been found have been dead bodies. A total of 6,525 people
were reported injured on Monday and reports are increasing of more injured
people today. Many survivors have gathered around any open space they can find whether
it is a field, empty private compound, or empty roadside lot. Families continue
to sleep in the outside in the streets during the cold night.
An Aftershock
occurred Sunday setting off an avalanche on Mount Everest, killing 17 people.
Of those 17 people, 3 of them were Americans. The Americans that were reported
dead were Google executive, Dan Fredinburg, Eve Girawong of New Jersey, and Tom
Taplin who was a filmmaker from Santa Monica, California. To make matters even worse, the hospitals are
overflowing with injured victims in Nepal, so many of the injured
have not been treated. Nepal is in deep trouble and it is up to other countries around the world to step up and help
because their country cannot do it alone.
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