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On 25 April, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal and left survivors in devastating conditions
By 28 April, Nepalese authorities had raised the death toll to more than 4,400 people. The uncertainty over the degree of damage and what the future might hold spreads fear and anxiety across Nepal. For now, getting through the day and night is the immediate challenge as aftershock after aftershock continues to rattle this country and its unnerved people.
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"When the earthquake struck, we huddled under a concrete beam — and prayed," says journalist Sunir Pandey. With tremors repeating throughout the night, he did not sleep a wink.
People carry a woman from the rubble of a destroyed building while locals and rescue teams continue to search for more survivors.
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"I thought I had died," says a jolted Ichcha Gauchan when her neighbouring houses started to sway during the earthquake. She echoed Pandey's fear, "How can we sleep at night?"
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"I managed to dig out of what could easily have been my grave… I was suffocating, I could not breathe," says Bhim Bahadur who suffered the avalanche that swept through Mount Everest. "I had lived but lost many of my friends"
A photograph of Everest basecamp after the avalanche struck yesterday shows climbers carrying the injured in sleeping bags.
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Climbers and Sherpas were buried under rock and ice at the mountain's 18,000-foot-high base camp. "There are still many people who are still missing on the mountain. There were several tents buried by the snow, several blown away." says Pemba Sherpa, 43, one of the sherpas who survived.
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"Not only Nepal is crying but all Nepalis in the world are crying. We are dumbstruck. It is painful to see the people in my country suffer," says Bahadur Shretsa, one of the worried Nepalis working here in Malaysia
The Dharahara Tower, which to me is like the 'KLCC of Nepal', is gone." says Janak.
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"On that day, my family managed to call me to say everyone is fine. After that, I could not contact them. I was told that my village is gone and we do not have a house now," Purna Bahadu Shresta, a Nepali factory worker in Malaysia
It's been three days since the quake but the people of Nepal are still scared. "Everyone is saying it will come again. No one is going to sleep at home," says security guard Samir Thapa.
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"We don't have any clothes, we don't have enough food, we don't have medicine, we don't know when we can go back into our homes," says Mohammed Kabil
A Nepalese girl takes out belongings from her damaged house in Bhaktapur on the outskirts of Kathmandu.
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Two men help clear debris after buildings collapsed in Bhaktapur, Nepal after the 7.8 earthquake hit Kathmandu.
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"No one knows how many people are out there, [still alive] after 18 hours. The manpower is limited," says photographer Prakash Mathema
Nepalese rescue personnel help a trapped earthquake survivor, Saroj Shrestha (center right) as his friend lies dead next to him in Swayambhu, in Kathmandu on 26 April 2015
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"People here help one another because they know the government often cannot. They reach out to one another, and they persevere," says freelance writer Donatella Lorch
People try to free a man from the rubble of a destroyed building after an earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal on 25 April 2015.
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Doctors and nurses at the 660-bed facility are working 24-hour shifts, says Bir Hospital Director Dr Swoyam Prakash Pandit
An Injured person receives treatment outside the Medicare Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Saturday.
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The bodies of the victims are laid out in line outside a hospital in the city of Kathmandu in the wake of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that his the area on Saturday morning.
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"Sanitation, disease, these are also serious worries. The ward and a unit for less serious injuries had treated about 1,000 people over the weekend," says Dr Samaj Gautam, one of the exhausted doctors
Health workers take care of injured people outside the Manmohan Memorial Community Hospital after an earthquake caused serious damage in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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A child receives treatment outside the emergency ward at Bir hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. The hospital has to resort to treating patients outside as it cannot accommodate the many injured and dead flooding in.
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