A woman washes cloths as she sits outside her temporary shelter built near the houses damaged during an earthquake earlier this year, in Bhaktapur, Nepal December 28, 2015. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal will start repairs and reconstruction next week for nearly a million homes damaged by last year's deadly earthquakes, the head of a state agency said on Saturday, nearly nine months after the disaster left hundreds of thousands homeless.
Two tremors last April and May killed 9,000 people, injured more than 22,000 and damaged or destroyed more than 900,000 houses, forcing many to brave freezing temperatures living in temporary shelters made from tarps and corrugated iron sheets.
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