Kathmandu turns graveyard for thousands
News Nation Bureau 26 April 2015, 09:51 PM
The 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal and neighbouring Indian states today, leaving a massive trail of death and devastation, jolted memories of the catastrophic 1934 tragedy, which had claimed several thousands of human lives on both sides of the Himalayas. The 50.5-metre-high tower in Kathmandu was reduced to just its base, from a tourist landmark to practically a graveyard, as at least 180 bodies were retrieved from its rubble
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