Up to 1000 Europeans still missing

ACCORDING to the BBC, European officials are struggling to find 1,000 EU citizens who are still unaccounted for in Nepal, six days after an earthquake that has so far taken the lives of more than 6,000 people.

An EU official said that most are thought to have been trekking on the Everest, or in the remote Langtang regions. Many are hoped to be alive but isolated by the quake.

In addition, the fate of thousands of Nepalese people in remote communities is also unknown.

Nepal has called for more foreign help and humanitarian aid, and has admitted it was ill-prepared for the disaster.

Information Minister Minendra Rijal told the BBC that “seminars and workshops probably are not that useful” in dealing with the crisis.

“Any projection has not taken into account… that so many people and so many districts would be affected,” he said. “This is a calamity of enormous proportions.”