(27 Apr 2015) The death toll from Nepal's earthquake has soared past 3,300, with well over one-thousand victims reported in the capital, Kathmandu.
Rescue workers and volunteers on Monday continued shifting broken concrete slabs and crumbled bricks in the search for survivors and the recovery of bodies.
The capital city is largely a collection of small, poorly constructed brick apartment buildings and Saturday's earthquake destroyed swathes of the oldest neighbourhoods.
The search for more victims is being severely hampered by a lack of equipment.
The rescue operation has been painfully slow, with the time taken counted in lives.
There were 12 people in this house when it collapsed on Saturday.
They all got out, except for 12 year old Neha Chumda.
On Monday a team from the Nepalese army finally removed her body from the wreckage of the family home.
The country's Minister of Labour told AP that there was a desperate need for scaffolding, bulldozers and cranes.
Rescuers are largely left to pull at collapsed buildings with little more than their bare hands to try to save lives or - more likely - recover dead bodies.
The death toll continues to rise as slowly but surely more bodies are prised out of the rubble.
At least seven were found on Monday in a mass of rubble that used to house a church, a restaurant and a storeroom; more were pulled out earlier.
The man in tears just learned his brother was one of the dead.
For the police, the operations are becoming a catalogue of casualties.
"We have taken out thirteen dead bodies (from the building housing the church) and we have rescued six people. We think about thirteen to fourteen bodies are still inside the rubble," said a police superintendent.
One of those is believed to be the father of Amir Tamang, for him adding a parent to the deaths of his sister-in-law, two aunts and a niece.
International teams are now arriving in Nepal and their help cannot come too soon.
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