Heart breaking story time of earth quake

Heartbreaking individual stories continue to arrive from the quake scene  in nepal. Reuters have filed this from a village in the Gorkha valley area, Jharibar.

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.

Three other houses in their remote settlement, an hour’s walk up the lush green Gorkha valley, had collapsed. It was deathly quiet after Saturday’s quake, she recalls.

“I could see my son’s fingers fluttering through the pile of stones. That’s how I could see him and save him,” Sunthalia said, sitting listlessly on the ground, her son by her side.

The stench of dead cattle still in the rubble of her home is overpowering. There is little government help so far; the only thing families such as hers have been given is a thin tarpaulin sheet to lie under.

Four days after the country’s most powerful quake in 81 years, authorities are struggling to determine the extent of the disaster in the Gorkha region and neighbouring Lamjung where the epicentre lay, let alone provide succour.

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