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Business News/ Photos / Destruction beyond Kathmandu

Destruction beyond Kathmandu

11 Photos . Updated: 29 Apr 2015, 12:56 PM IST Livemint

Many communities perched on mountainsides are devastated and struggling to cope after a mammoth earthquake killed more than 5,000 people in Nepal.

A resident tries to clear debris of his house at a village in Sindhupalchowk. Rough geography and heavy damage to roads are making rescue operations difficult. Reuters

1/11A resident tries to clear debris of his house at a village in Sindhupalchowk. Rough geography and heavy damage to roads are making rescue operations difficult. Reuters

Residents of Paslang village in Gorkha municipality try to salvage their belongings from the debris of their house. Reuters

2/11Residents of Paslang village in Gorkha municipality try to salvage their belongings from the debris of their house. Reuters

In Gorkha district, the epicentre of the magnitude 7.8 quake, roads that are repaired or cleared during the day are often blocked before the next morning by landslides, making it difficult to reach communities where hundreds are feared dead. AFP

3/11In Gorkha district, the epicentre of the magnitude 7.8 quake, roads that are repaired or cleared during the day are often blocked before the next morning by landslides, making it difficult to reach communities where hundreds are feared dead. AFP

Rain has also made it extremely difficult to reach these distant areas, in desperate need of aid.

4/11Rain has also made it extremely difficult to reach these distant areas, in desperate need of aid.

An injured girl is carried by a Nepal Army personnel to a helicopter in Sindhupalchowk. Sindhupalchowk is more or less completely destroyed, its mud-brick houses flattened, rubble covering corpses, and many wounded people.Reuters

5/11An injured girl is carried by a Nepal Army personnel to a helicopter in Sindhupalchowk. Sindhupalchowk is more or less completely destroyed, its mud-brick houses flattened, rubble covering corpses, and many wounded people.Reuters

Collapsed houses in a village in Sindhupalchowk. Many residents survived the quake because they were working in the fields where they grow wheat and rice. Reuters

6/11Collapsed houses in a village in Sindhupalchowk. Many residents survived the quake because they were working in the fields where they grow wheat and rice. Reuters

An injured woman waits in an ambulance after being rescued from a village at Pokhara. Hungry and desperate villagers rushed towards relief helicopters in remote areas, begging to be airlifted to safety, four days after the monster earthquake. AFP

7/11An injured woman waits in an ambulance after being rescued from a village at Pokhara. Hungry and desperate villagers rushed towards relief helicopters in remote areas, begging to be airlifted to safety, four days after the monster earthquake. AFP

Residents in the small village of Chaurikhark stand next to tents set up after the earthquake on a field adjacent to the village. AFP

8/11Residents in the small village of Chaurikhark stand next to tents set up after the earthquake on a field adjacent to the village. AFP

Local villagers charge their mobile phones inside their makeshift shelter near a devastated area in Paslang. There is no power in most of these villages, and communications are spotty. Reuters

9/11Local villagers charge their mobile phones inside their makeshift shelter near a devastated area in Paslang. There is no power in most of these villages, and communications are spotty. Reuters

Villagers look on as an Indian Army helicopter delivers aid at Lapu in Gorkha. Rescuers in Nepal battled to reach remote communities as roads had become impassable. AFP

10/11Villagers look on as an Indian Army helicopter delivers aid at Lapu in Gorkha. Rescuers in Nepal battled to reach remote communities as roads had become impassable. AFP

People wait for a bus to go to their villages. Across the countryside outside Kathmandu, tens of thousands of people are making desperate journeys back to their isolated villages that have been all but cut off from the world. AP

11/11People wait for a bus to go to their villages. Across the countryside outside Kathmandu, tens of thousands of people are making desperate journeys back to their isolated villages that have been all but cut off from the world. AP

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