Nepal PM Sushil Koirala faces earthquake victims ire, toll tops 6,000

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Nepalese people watch the rescue operation at the site of a residential building that collapsed in Saturday's earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, April 26, 2015. Photo: APNepal Prime Minister Sushil Koirala on Wednesday faced earthquake victims' ire over mismanagement in distribution of relief material.
People vented their anger when the Prime Minister visited their camps to assess relief work and complained that they were not getting any aid. Koirala told them that he had come to see for himself the difficult situation Nepal is faced with and assured them that help would reach them at the earliest.
Thousands of desperate Nepalese, who have been staying in the open with no houses to return to and fearing more devastation from aftershocks, clashed with police and seized water-bottles and other essential supplies.
Frayed tempers were also witnessed at the main bus station here where quake victims had gathered to get out of Kathmandu but the promised buses failed to arrive. Scuffles broke out between angry crowds and the riot police which arrived there to control the situation.

Over 6,000 bodies have so far been pulled out from under mounds of debris and rubble left by razed homes and buildings in Saturday's 7.9-magnitude temblor, Deputy Prime Minister Bam Dev Gautam said.
Yesterday, Koirala had said the toll could reach 10,000 because information from the affected remote villages is yet to come.
More than 11,000 people have been injured in the quake, the worst in over 80 years.

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