Massive earthquake slams Nepal
Volunteers pack relief material into cartons at the Nepal Embassy in New Delhi, India, on May 1, 2015. (AFP/Getty Images)
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A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the South Asian nation of Nepal on April 25, 2015, devastating the capital Kathmandu and triggering avalanches on Mount Everest. (Full story here)
Thai students hold candles during a memorial for the victims of the earthquake in Nepal at Thammasat University in Bangkok on May 1, 2015. (AFP/Getty Images)
Houses damaged by the earthquake are pictured in a remote village near Charikot, in the Dholka district of Nepal. (AFP/Getty Images)
Ramaya pleads for food after an aid relief helicopter lands at the remote mountain village of Gumda, near the epicenter of Saturday’s massive earthquake in the Gorkha District of Nepal. (Wally Santana / AP)
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An Indian Army doctor helps an injured woman drink water after she was evacuated from higher reaches of mountains by Nepalese army, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, April 29, 2015. (Manish Swarup / AP)
Nepalese people line up to board buses go to their villages in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, April 29, 2015. (Niranjan Shrestha / AP)
A Nepalese child injured in Saturday’s earthquake is taken on a stretcher after being evacuated from higher reaches of mountains by Nepalese army soldiers, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, April 29, 2015. (Manish Swarup / AP)
Houses on the higher reaches of mountains destroyed in Saturday’s earthquake are seen from a helicopter near Dhadingbesti, in Nepal, Wednesday, April 29, 2015. (Manish Swarup / AP)
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Nepalese people line up to board buses go to their villages in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Thousands of people are lining up at bus stations in Kathmandu where the government is providing free transportation for people hoping to travel to their hometowns and villages.
(Niranjan Shrestha / AP)Damaged houses in Gorkha, Nepal, are seen from an Indian army helicopter April 28, 2015. (Sajjad Hussain, AFP/Getty Images)
A member of the Nepalese security forces walks among earthquake debris in the capital of Kathmandu on April 28, 2015. (NIcolas Asfouri, AFP/Getty Images)
Nepalese residents amid the rubble in an earthquake-damaged area of Bhaktapur on the outskirts of Kathmandu on April 28, 2015. (Menahem Kahana, AFP/Getty Images)
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A man walks through the rubble of buildings in Bhaktapur on April 28, 2015. The village on the outskirts of Kathmandu was hard hit in the Nepal earthquake. (Menahem Kahana, AFP/Getty Images)
Men carry the body of an earthquake victim toward a helicopter to be evacuated from the northeastern Nepali town of Lukla on April 28, 2015. (Roberto Schmidt, AFP/Getty Images)
A French firefighter with a rescue dog looks for earthquake survivors among debris in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu on April 28, 2015. (NIcolas Asfouri, AFP/Getty Images)
French rescue workers amid earthquake debris in Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 28, 2015. (NIcolas Asfouri, AFP/Getty Images)
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Nepalese villagers injured in an earthquake inside an Indian army helicopter after being evacuated from Lapu in the Gorkha District on April 28, 2015. (Sajjad Hussain, AFP/Getty Images)
Two police officers walk on a damaged road as an aftershock strikes Nyalam County in Xigaze in southwest China’s Tibet region on April 26, 2015. (AFP/Getty Images)
Collapsed houses in Bhaktapur, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, are seen on April 27, 2015, two days after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal.
(PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP/Getty Images)Paragliders on a hill above Pokhara Lake on April 27, 2015, following the earthquake that rocked the Himalayan nation April 25. (Sajjad Hussain, AFP/Getty Images)
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Nepal residents carry their belongings along a road after spending the night outdoors in Kathmandu on April 27, 2015, two days after an earthquake hit Nepal. (Prakash Mathema, AFP/Getty Images)
People gather near temporary shelters set up in Kathmandu on April 27, 2015, two days after an earthquake of 7.8 magnitude hit Nepal. (Prakash Mathema, AFP/Getty Images)
Nepal residents mourn the death of a relative following an earthquake at a mass cremation ceremony in Kathmandu on April 26, 2015. (Prakash Mathema, AFP/Getty Images)
Earthquake-damaged roads on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 26, 2015. (Prakash Singh, AFP/Getty Images)
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Nepalese residents walk past road damage after an earthquake in Kathmandu on April 26, 2015. (Prakash Mathema, AFP/Getty Images)
A Nepalese man and woman hold each other in Kathmandu’s Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage site severely damaged by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake April 25, 2015. (Prakash Mathema, AFP/Getty Images)