Braving the cold: Two young residents standing among temporary shelter in the Nepalese village of Laprak. — AFP
LAPRAK: Nine months after a massive earthquake hit Nepal, thousands of survivors are now fighting sub-zero temperatures in flimsy temporary shelters, awaiting government help to rebuild their homes.
The threat of landslides had forced families in the remote village of Laprak, close to the quake’s epicentre in western Nepal, to relocate to a site a thousand metres higher.
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