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KATHMANDU, Aug 29 – Nepal needs foreign help in specialised and technical areas in which it does not have \u200cexpertise in the aftermath of the devastating flood that hit its Himalayan border with China this week, but not in search and rescue, its foreign minister told Reuters.A\u00a0glacier collapse<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday unleashed a huge torrent of rock, ice, mud and debris through Himalayan mountain \u200briver systems, killing more than 600 people in Nepal and China’s Tibet, with more than 2,000 still unaccounted for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \u2060Kathmandu Post reported that India, China, the United States, Britain, Japan, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh had \u200basked the government to allow their search-and-rescue teams to assist in the operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shisir Khanal said Kathmandu needs foreign help \u200bin areas such as rescuing people stuck in tunnels, opening transport and communication services in places where bridges have been destroyed, identification of dead bodies, DNA testing and storing bodies for longer durations.”We have already made requests for such specialised services and technical assistance \u200bin areas where we don’t have enough expertise and technical knowhow,” Khanal said late on Friday.Giant neighbours India and \u200bChina, between whom the poor Himalayan country is wedged, have been requested for bailey bridges to reopen early transport and communication \u200cin a \u2060disaster-hit area where about two dozen bridges had been destroyed.Earlier on Friday, Nepal’s foreign ministry had said that Kathmandu could manage the rescue efforts on its own for now and declined foreign involvement<\/a>.Asked about that stance of his government, Khanal said there was no need for assistance in general search and rescue which was being done by Nepali \u200brescuers. \u201cWe think there is no \u200bneed for repetition in \u2060this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Reuters) KATHMANDU, Aug 29 – Nepal needs foreign help in specialised and technical areas in which it does not have \u200cexpertise in the aftermath of the devastating flood that hit its Himalayan border with China this week, but not in search and rescue, its foreign minister told Reuters.A\u00a0glacier collapse\u00a0on Wednesday unleashed a huge torrent of rock, ice, mud and debris through Himalayan mountain \u200briver systems, killing more than 600 people in Nepal and China’s Tibet, with more than 2,000 still unaccounted for. The \u2060Kathmandu Post reported that India, China, the United States, Britain, Japan, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60869,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60867\/revisions\/60869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}