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


  • World
  • Tuesday, 28 Apr 2015

JHARIBAR, Nepal (Reuters) - 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.

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