Boy pulled from Kathmandu quake rubble

DHAKA, April 30 (NsNewsWire) — The rescue of the teen police named as Pemba Tamang — as well as Pemba Lama — from the ruins of a collapsed building in Kathmandu provided a rare moment of joy as relief co-ordinators warned it could take five days to reach some of the worst hit areas, accessible only by foot, reports AFP.

The UN launched an appeal for $US415 million ($571m) in aid from the international community while President Barack Obama vowed the US would do everything in its power to help Nepal.

Nepalese authorities announced that climbing would resume on Mount Everest next week despite the deaths of 18 people on the world’s tallest mountain in an avalanche triggered by the quake.

Crowds cheered as the boy was pulled out of the wreckage, dazed and dusty, and carried away on a stretcher. He had been pinned between collapsed floors of a seven-storey guesthouse in the Gongabu district of Kathmandu. “A 15-year-old boy has been rescued from the rubble of a lodge called Hilton Guesthouse,” said police spokesman Kamal Singh Bam.