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Sikkim Quake

Search on for trapped victims

Death toll in India, Nepal climbs to 83

AFP, Gangtok
Rescue teams blasted their way through rockfalls yesterday as they closed in on the remote epicentre of a Himalayan earthquake that killed 83 people in India, Nepal and Tibet.
More than 5,000 troops, including army engineers using explosives, cleared a route to Mangan, a town near the main impact zone of Sunday's 6.9-magnitude quake on the border between India's northeastern Sikkim state and Nepal.
"The road to Mangan is open," Indian Home Secretary RK Singh told reporters in New Delhi.
But officials in the region said it could still take another two days to access isolated villages further north which aerial photos suggested had been badly damaged.
Convoys of vehicles carrying rescue workers, medical teams and emergency supplies left the Sikkim capital Gangtok at daybreaklliesday.
But progress was tortuously slow over the narrow, badly damaged roads more often frequented by groups of adventurous tourists heading for Himalayan trekking trails.
After covering just a short section of the 60-kilometre route to the worst-affected districts of Mangan and Sangthan, the convoys came to a halt near the town of Phingla, where the path was blocked by a huge rockfall.
As army engineers drilled holes for explosives to blow apart the largest boulders, rescuers waited in frustration along with distraught locals trying to get through to relatives - unsure whether they were alive or dead.
Those who did attempt walking around the rockfall were stopped by soldiers for security reasons.
Eventually the way was cleared, and the convoys moved slowly on despite the threat of fresh landslides.
A break in the monsoon weather allowed a resumption of helicopter flights which had been grounded most of Monday by heavy rains and low cloud.
Small medical teams with doctors and paramedics were air-lifted into Mangan, and food packages were dropped on some oudying villages.
The death toll from building collapses and landslides in Sikkim stood at 50, but
Home Secretary Singh warned the number could rise as emergency workers pressed on towards the epicentre.
Around 300 people have been admitted to hospitals across the state.
Hundreds of Gangtok residents spent a second night out in the open, too frightened to sleep in homes badly damaged by the quake.
In Nepal, eight people were killed and hundreds of homes destroyed or damaged in the east of the country, where rescuers faced the same problems as their Indian counterparts with rains and mudslides blocking the only highway.