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The disaster, which is the country's biggest in 80 years, will require a "massive" aid operation.
"This will be a... massive operation," Elisabeth Byrs, spokesman for the UN's World Food Programme, told AFP.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said it was sending additional emergency kits to meet immediate health needs.
"An additional five emergency health kits are being flown in along with surgical kits and trauma bags to meet the immediate health needs. There is an urgent need to replenish medical stocks to support the emergency response efforts," said Poonam Khetrapal, WHO's regional director for Southeast Asia.
In the UK, further humanitarian aid is being sent to Nepal, according to BBC's John Kay.


17.01

The US secretary of state has announced a further $9 million (£5.91 million) in aid.

16.33

Professor David Petley, a landslide expert and the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, said that being up in the Himalayas during the earthquake was “the worst place to be”.
“The greatest intensity of tremor is felt on the ridges and peaks,” said Professor Petley. “It’s a bit like with a tuning fork - the shaking is most intense at the top.”
He said the earthquake would “pop” rocks off the side of the mountains, and could rain them down on anyone below.
“It must have been truly horrifying to be there.”

16.26

Drone footage shows the damage done to Kathmandu by Saturday's 7.8-scale earthquake, and subsequent aftershocks.

16.11

The death toll from Saturday's earthquake has now risen above 4,000 people.
Nepal police said on their Facebook page late on Monday evening that 3,904 deaths had been counted in Nepal and 7,180 people were injured.
In addition, an avalanche caused by the earthquake on Saturday killed 18 people at Mount Everest's base camp, 61 people were killed in neighbouring India, and China reported 25 people died in Tibet.
The toll is expected to rise as assessments are made in vulnerable mountain villages that have been inaccessible since the quake.

15.45

The Gurkha 200 Everest Expedition has revealed more about their ordeal on the mountain during the earthquake.
Brig Ian Rigden said the 14 members and their sherpas who had been trapped at Camp 1 had all been airlifted down to Base Camp, where they are helping recovery efforts. He said:
Quote They are all in good spirits. Base Camp is unrecognisable and there is a considerable amount of work to do to secure it, help other teams and salvage what they can. The plan now is to assist at Base Camp for the next two days, when they will be joined by our expedition doctor (a former Everest summiteer and Reservist, who was making his way to join the team for the major climb phase) who is walking in.
They will then extract themselves to Kathmandu on foot and by whatever means they can achieve. They have a very wide range of useful skills and the focus now is to assist the people of Nepal.
The team has had a significant ordeal at Camp 1, surviving the follow-on after-shock earth tremors and numerous avalanches around their immediate area. Our team has been exemplary throughout and a great credit to the Brigade.

15.21

There are unverified reports of people being turned away from overcrowded hospitals in Kathmandu:

15.09

Alex Schneider and Sam Chappatte, both 28, the British couple caught in a deadly avalanche at Mount Everest's Camp 1, have been tweeting about the rescue operation through the day:






Alex Schneider and Sam Chappatte on Mount Everest in 2014

14.53

Almost no aid has reached Gorkha, the region that was the epicentre of Saturday's earthquake, more than 48 hours after it struck, according to the charity World Vision.
Aid worker Matt Darvas told the AP by telephone:
Quote It does not seem aid is reaching here very quickly.
Further north from here the reports are very disturbing.
He said that up to 75 percent of the buildings in Singla may have collapsed and the village, a two-days walk away, has been out of contact since Saturday night.
He said few SUVs with foreign tourists bringing basic aid supplies had begun to reach Gorkha by early evening.

14.43

Channel 4 News has published a letter to Dan Fredinburg, the Google executive, by his friend Max Stossel which the former had taken with him during his Everest expedition.
Mr Fredinburg was killed on Saturday after the Everest avalanche during his travels with three other Google employees through Sheffield-based firm Jagged Globe when he suffered fatal head injuries.
The news organisation, with Mr Stossel's permission, tells Mr Fredinburg: "Please return safely with stories (stories stories).
"And even if you don't... We'll all be horrified, saddened, and heartbroken, that we can't create new stories with you but we'll also know that you've already lived the equivalent of at least 100 lifetimes."
The poignant letter can be read in full here.

14.24

British Army Gurkhas are preparing to fly to Nepal to help with earthquake efforts, the Telegraph understands.
Troops from the 2nd Bn Royal Gurkha Rifles based in Kent will act as liaison teams to help search and recovery efforts, Ben Farmer writes.
Around 40 troops are poised to fly, joining a standing force of 65 Gurkhas at their permanent headquarters in Nepal.
One Army source said: "They are at very short notice to move. They speak the lingo and they have everything they need, from infantry to engineers within the brigade."
The deployment is being discussed in a Cobra meeting, with further news expected soon.

14.19

Reuters reports that tremors shook northeast India today, according to the US Geological Survey.
It said the earthquake had a magnitude of 5.1, which is less severe than Saturday's one, and occurred in the Indian state of West Bengal.
"It was just now, Everything was shaking. People began to come out of their homes," a Reuters reporter in the north Indian city of Patna said.

14.12

Salokya, a blogger and Nepal-based journalist, has shared pictures that he says have been taken using a drone which show the extend of the devastation in Bhaktapur.



14.09

Several South Africans have been caught up in the Nepalese earthquake, including Mike Sherman and his girlfriend Kate Ahrends. The couple were travelling through the country and were in the national park in Langtang, a region to the north of Kathmandu which borders Tibet, when the earthquake struck, writes Aislinn Laing in Johannesburg.
Mr Sherman's mother Sue said she received an email from the father of a medical volunteer informing her that her son were alive but cut off from communication.
“They were in a group of seven, but they’re completely cut off from everywhere because they are blocked by an avalanche," she told Eyewitness News radio. "I’m not sure which village they’re in. But they have only food left for two days.”
At least 10 South Africans were trapped on Mount Everest following the avalanche generated by the earthquake, among them Saray Khumalo, a 43-year-old from Johannesburg, who was preparing to become the first black woman to climb the famous peak.
Another, Sean Wisedale, the first South African to summit the world's seven highest peaks, wrote on his blog which he is updating from the Everest base camp that his heart "literally misses a beat" every time he hears a rumble, and that he has already seen three bodies lying frozen in the ground.
His group's tents were protected by a rock, but they could not escape being hit by a shard of crystalised ice which fell from a height of about 100m.
Clayson Monyela, a spokesman for South Africa's foreign office, said all South Africans in Nepal had been accounted for.

13.56

Leicester University has paid tribute to an American postgraduate student who was killed in the Base Camp avalanche.
Marisa Eve Girawong, from New Jersey in the United States, was studying mountain medicine at the university.
Dr Peter Barry, of the Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, said she was "delightful to know, a beautiful, intelligent, outgoing person who effortlessly got on with everyone."
He said: "She had plans to continue her work in the mountains and was excited about the adventures ahead of her. This is a real loss to our community. Our thoughts are with her family and friends, and all those affected by this tragedy."

13.30

China cancelled all spring climbs on the north face of Mount Everest, state media said on Monday, after an earthquake in neighbouring Nepal triggered a deadly avalanche elsewhere on the world's highest mountain.
More than 400 climbers have descended to safety in Tibet since Saturday's quake, Xinhua News Agency reported, citing the regional sports bureau, AFP reports.
Climbers stranded for two days at high altitudes on the Nepalese side of the mountain have been rescued by helicopters.
Rescue teams in three helicopters were running missions to Camps One and Two following Saturday's avalanche that killed 18 people further down the mountain at base camp.

13.14

A video claims to show some of the first people being rescued from Mount Everest following a deadly avalanche:

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