KATHMANDU: Death toll has crossed 32,00 in earthquake hit Nepal compelling hundreds of its citizens to flee the capital Kathmandu for the plains.
The quake hit areas were faced with shortages of food and water.
Hundreds of Nepalis were fleeing the capital Kathmandu for the plains on Monday, terror-stricken by two days of powerful aftershocks following a massive earthquake.
The mountain valley city roads were jammed with people, many with babies in their arms, trying to climb onto buses or hitch a ride aboard cars and trucks.
The people said they had slept in the open since Saturday’s quake, either because their homes were flattened or they were terrified that the aftershocks would bring them crashing down.
Authorities were trying to cope with a shortage of drinking water and food, as well as the threat of disease.
There is dearth of beds as the sick and wounded were lying out in the open in Kathmandu.
Doctors have set up an operating theatre inside a tent in the grounds of Kathmandu Medical College.
Hundreds of foreign and Nepali climbers remained trapped after a huge avalanche ripped through the Mount Everest base camp.
A police official said on Monday that a total of 3,218 people were confirmed killed in the 7.9 magnitude quake, , the worst in Nepal since 1934 when 8,500 died. More than 6,500 were injured.
Another 66 were killed across the border in India and at least another 20 in Tibet, China’s state news agency said.
The toll is likely to rise as rescuers struggle to reach remote regions in the impoverished, mountainous country of 28 million people and as bodies buried under rubble are recovered.
