Nepali government has decided to lunch Nepal Army helicopters to launch emergency rescue and relief operations in the earthquake-hit areas, government officials said on Sunday. An emergency meeting called by Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli made a decision to dispatch warm clothes and food items in the mountainous areas of Gorkha District including Barpak, the epicenter of the April 25 earthquake last year, where the earthquake victims are in difficulties due to heavy snowfalls in recent days amid harsh winter. "The army personnel will distribute warm clothes and food items to the earthquake victims and rescue them toward safe places," Nepal's Defense Minister Bhim Rawal, who also participated in the meeting, told reporters. Chiefs of security forces, senior ministers and secretaries attended the meeting discussing about providing relief supports to the earthquake victims.
