Saturday, May 16, 2015

Fears as buildings crack in quake-hit Nepal


Three weeks after a powerful earthquake devastated Nepal, buildings in the capital Kathmandu damaged by the shaking and now too perilous to live in have yet to be torn down.
For the past few weeks, people whose homes were destroyed and others who are afraid to return home, have lived in tents on open grounds and even stayed in large spaces like those of wedding venues.
People have re-navigated how they walk along familiar streets by avoiding passing under dangerously tilted buildings.
Some have moved away from larger complexes that look on the verge of collapse.
Another powerful temblor, with a magnitude of 7.3, hit shortly after noon on Tuesday, sending people running into the streets.
During the earthquake many tried to jostle for space away from already cracked structures. Patients in the city’s hospitals were moved outdoors into open spaces like car parks and more people spent the night outside after the shaking, which killed 65 and injured nearly 2,000.

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