Tuesday, May 5

Nepal earthquake: Aerial photos of remote Gorkha district show entire villages reduced to rubble

Tiny villages clinging to the remote mountainsides of Gorkha District, near the epicentre of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal, have been ravaged. Entire clusters of homes have been reduced to piles of stone and splintered wood.
Nepal earthquake aerial photos
Earthquake-damaged houses in Gorkha District  are seen from an Indian Army helicopter(Sajjad Hussain/AFP)