Found 100 snow-covered corpses buried in Nepal

Police and Nepalese volunteers found the body of about 100 pedestrians and villagers buried in an earthquake avalanche last month, and were digging through the snow to find traces of dozens of people. Other missing.

Detected 100 snow-covered corpses buried in Nepal

According to Reuters, bodies were recalled on May 2-3 at Langtang village, 60 km north of Kathmandu, on a popular climbing route with Westerners.The entire village, including 55 pedestrian motels, was destroyed by snowslides.

The Everest departure camp was buried after the snowslide.(Photo: Reuters)

" Local volunteers and police are using a shovel to dig through a pile of snow more than 1.8 meters to find more bodies ," said Gautam Rimal, a local official. There were at least 7 foreign nationals among those killed , but only identified two people, he added.

It is unclear how many people are present at Langtang at the time of snowslides, but other officials say there may be about 120 more people buried under the snow.

"Before that, we could not reach this area due to rain and cloudy weather," said Uddhav Bhattarai, senior district official yesterday.

Nepal reported the number of people killed in the April 25 earthquake reached 7,276, and 14,300 were injured. At least 18 people died in a snowslide on Mount Everest. The Nepalese government today said the country has not officially closed the Everest climb, although the route to the summit has been severely damaged.