Near remote Nepal quake epicentre, survivors dig for loved ones alone

April 29, 2015 08:57

Her husband away in India, Sunthalia worked alone for hours in the rubble of her house perched on a ridge near the epicentre of Nepal's earthquake to pull out the bodies of her 10-year-old daughter and a son aged eight.

Another son of four miraculously survived.

Three other houses in their remote settlement, an hour's walk up the lush green Gorkha valley, had collapsed. It was deathly quiet after Saturday's quake, she recalls.

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