Rescue and Recovery in Nepal
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Bimala Lopchan Tamang, 15, cries upon learning the death of her husband Udas Tamang, 16, whose body was recovered from collapsed building by rescue workers on the fifth day after the earthquake hit Nepal in Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 29, 2015. Udas had arrived in Kathmandu from Nuwakot to go overseas to earn money and have a better future with Bimala, whom he married last year. #
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Destroyed villages sit on mountain tops near the epicenter of Saturday's massive earthquake, in the Gorkha District of Nepal on April 29, 2015. Aid reached the hilly district near the epicenter of Nepal's earthquake for the first time Wednesday, four days after the quake struck. #
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Buddhist monks salvage a statue of a Buddhist deity from a monastery around the famous Swayambhunath stupa after it was damaged by Saturday's earthquake in Kathmandu on April 30, 2015. #
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Sixty-nine members of the Fairfax County Virginia Urban Search and Rescue Team await takeoff on a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware on April 26, 2015. The specially trained team and approximately 70,000 pounds of their supplies deployed to Nepal to assist with rescue operations. #
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Nepal policemen and US rescue workers prepare to pull out Pemba Tamang, a teenage boy from the rubble of a building five days after the earthquake in Kathmandu, on April 30, 2015. #
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Earthquake survivor Pema Lama, 15, is rescued by the Armed Police Force from the collapsed Hilton Hotel, the result of an earthquake in Kathmandu, on April 30, 2015. #
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Members of the Nepalese Armed Police Force carry their officer as they cheer after successfully rescuing earthquake survivor Pema Lam from the collapsed Hilton Hotel. #
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Passengers wait in a traffic jam of hundreds of vehicles on the mountain highway from Kathmandu near the epicenter of Saturday's massive earthquake in the Gorkha District, Nepal, on April 27, 2015. #
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A Nepalese sherpa Gyalzen Sherpa, whose leg was injured by an avalanche, looks out from a window of a chopper as he is flown back to Kathmandu by the Indian Air Force after being rescued in Lukla, Nepal, on April 30, 2015. Sherpa was at the treacherous Khumbu Icefall when an avalanche triggered by Saturday's 7.8-magnitude quake hit Everest Base Camp killing more than a dozen and injuring many more. #
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A destroyed village sits on a mountainside near the epicenter of Saturday's massive earthquake, in the Gorkha District of Nepal, on April 29, 2015. Aid reached the hilly district near the epicenter of Nepal's earthquake for the first time Wednesday. #
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Nepalese military personnel try to salvage supplies among the debris of a damaged shop at a devastated area following Saturday's earthquake at Arugat village, near Gorkha, Nepal, on April 29, 2015. #
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An Indian girl cries near the coffin of her mother Hema Prabha Saikia, a victim of Saturday’s earthquake in Nepal, in Gauhati, India, on April 29, 2015. The bodies of six women victims arrived in Gauhati on Wednesday. #
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A boy wades through the water next to the burning pyres of people, who died in Saturday's earthquake, during cremation along a river in Kathmandu on April 28, 2015. #
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Sanjit Karki, 6, an earthquake survivor, sits inside a temporary makeshift while under going treatment at the Army Hospital in Kathmandu on April 30, 2015. Sanjit was injured during the earthquake by a landslide while he was walking along a forest carrying firewood. His parents found him after about 20 minutes, lying unconscious near the landslide, and he was airlifted to an army hospital for treatment. #
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Ropes weighted down with water bottles are used to apply traction to the legs of an injured girl after she fractured them during Saturday's earthquake, at a hospital in Kathmandu on April 29, 2015. #
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Earthquake victims chant anti-government slogans while protesting against the government's lack of aid provided to the victims in Kathmandu on April 29, 2015. Officials conceded they had made mistakes in their initial response, leaving survivors stranded in remote villages waiting for aid and relief. Anger and frustration were mounting steadily, with many Nepalis sleeping out in the open under makeshift tents for a fifth night since the country's worst quake in more than 80 years. #
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Earthquake survivor Krishna Kumari Khadka, 24, is rescued by French, Israeli and Norwegian rescue teams from a collapsed building six days after the Earthquake in Kathmandu on April 30, 2015. #
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Earthquake survivor Krishna Kumari Khadka, 24, is rescued by French, Israeli and Norwegian rescue teams from a collapsed building six days after the Earthquake in Kathmandu on April 30, 2015. #
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