LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has sent a team of its famed Nepalese Gurkha soldiers to help survivors of the earthquake in their Himalayan homeland, whose prime minister said on Tuesday that the death toll could reach 10,000.
The international development ministry said the Gurkha engineers were travelling on a flight carrying more than 1,100 shelter kits and over 1,700 solar lanterns.
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