Will continue rescue ops in Nepal till normalcy returns: Army

Ajay Banerjee

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, April 28

Indian Army on Tuesday said it would continue providing aid and assistance to Nepal until  'normalcy' returns to the Himalayan country that was hit by a powerful earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale on Saturday.

Indian Army's Additional Director General Military Operations Maj Gen Ranbir Singh said: "We have not set a time frame for continuing these relief operations but we are committed (to doing so) until Nepal wants".

Army teams have reached remotest parts of Nepal and have a 45-bed hospital and three field hospitals with 18 medical teams for treating the wounded. Army doctors are also working with civil hospitals in Nepal, Maj Gen Singh said in a statement on Tuesday. Additionally, 12 engineering task forces — each having 70 seventy people — have been sent to Nepal to help clear roads in the country, he said.