Nepal: No more foreign rescue teams needed

Nepal has told aid agencies it did not need more foreign rescue teams to come and help in the search for earthquake survivors, because its government and military could cope, the national head of the United Nations Development Programme said. 

"The search and rescue will go on but the message they wanted us to relay was they have enough to deal with it," Jamie McGoldrick said. The message was conveyed by the Nepali government and military to aid agencies. 

If foreign rescue and medical teams are "in the air or just landed, they can come and help", McGoldrick said. "But if they are on a runway in their home country waiting to take off, then we are telling them not to come."  The government was not immediately available to comment.