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Near Nepal quake epicenter, desperate villagers await help
Death toll more than 4,700
W Nepal Earthquake Heal 5
Bhoj Kumar Thappa, 30, stands on his collapsed home where his wife and unborn child were killed during Saturday's massive earthquake in Paslang village in the Gorkha District of Nepal Tuesday. Military operations continue Tuesday to reach the isolated areas following the powerful earthquake that has devastated the nation and killed at least 4,700 people, according to district official Surya Mohan Adhikari. - photo by Associated Press
PASLANG, Nepal — There is almost nothing left of this village but enormous piles of broken red bricks and heaps of mud and dust. One of those piles was once Bhoj Kumar Thapa's home, where his pregnant wife pushed their 5-year-old daughter to safety in a last, desperate act before it collapsed and killed her during Saturday's earthquake. On Tuesday, Thapa and others in Paslang were still waiting for the government to deliver food, tents — any kind of aid — to this poor mountain village near the epicenter of the quake that killed more than 4,700 people, injured over 8,000 and left tens of thousands homeless.
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