00:00It's the fifth day of the rescue relief operation in Nepal. I'm in Bataar and since this morning there have
00:05alert been issued by the administration of a rise in the level of Bhatkoshi River, the Trishuli River and the
00:11reason is perhaps water discharge from the upstream Tibetan side and now you see the furious Bhatkoshi River eventually making
00:20even sound and that's what exactly the warning was issued.
00:22Now the further alert has been issued and people have been asked to evacuate and go to the safer side.
00:28While the choppers have started already hovering right behind me, rescue relief operation have been continued. The hostility came yesterday
00:36from the weather and now the rescue relief operation has started yet again but because of the warning people have
00:41been asked to evacuate to the safer areas.
00:52As the road connectivity totally washed away, the only and only access is the A passage and now more than
00:5920 choppers have been reopened by the Nepal government including army chopper and civilian authority.
01:04Look at the massive scale of relief and in operation also continues. Several people locally possibly at the safer places.
01:11Now the food, water, medicines and other logistics are being provided. The relief is coming from all over the world.
01:18Food, water now the very essential supplies that is need to be dropped to the valley areas where the operations
01:24are carried out.
01:24In fact, in fact, other than the evacuation, there is no other alternative. The road connectivity has been to be
01:30washed away. At the same time where I am right behind me at the helipad, there is a medical center
01:33has also been established, a makeshift hospital for the primary treatment and then later they are taken to Kathmandu for
01:40further.
01:40As we see, the army, the army, the army, the army are involved in this operation.
01:54It's a full scale operation of search and rescue. In Dhongay, I see many of these buildings are being penetrated
02:00by heavy earth moving machineries to find out possibility of any survival if at all there are in these areas
02:06because possibly there could be people trapped and also if they die at the time.
02:10So what we see is the recovery of these recoveries of the bodies. And remember, this is the market where
02:15more than 40 people were recovered along with the flow of Bhatkoshi and these buildings, the search and rescue teams
02:22are looking for every possible survivor or even the bodies that they are stuck in these buildings.
02:27So the search and rescue parties through penetrating the walls of these buildings will be going every block, every building.
02:34Massive devastation has triggered in the area of Lungankoti and here in Trishuli area, from Trishuli to Dhongay, the whole
02:44of this village has now totally been flattened and covered under thick layer of debris. Massive search and rescue operation
02:50continues.
02:56It's not over yet in Nepal as we see the first way bringing this magnitude of devastation. Now the level
03:03of Bhatkoshi river is yet again on rise. The administration from the upstream has issued a warning to the people
03:09near the bankment area to go to the safer side.
03:11While we see the search, rescue and road connectivity exercise underway by the different agencies, the threat that remains because
03:18of the Bhatkoshi river.
03:19Look at this literally scary look and since there have been water released from the upstream, the level of Bhatkoshi
03:25river yet again on rise and this is scary.
03:29Remember, there have been also possibility of flooding yet again because of the lake formation in Tibet, which is now
03:35the going capacity of 5 million cubic water level.
03:40And in that case, if that breaches the natural barrier, it will bring another wave of devastation already Nepal, which
03:47is gripped with this magnitude scale of disaster.
03:50Potentially, all efforts are being taken to avoid and prevent another wave.
03:55At Ground Zero in this village in Nepal, this is Archie Dosmitra for India today.
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