article_snippet.sent: Areas of Nepal have been completely flattened by the 7.8 magnitute earthquake, which has claimed the lives of more than 5,500 people across the country - and the death toll is expected to rise even further .
article_snippet.sent: The earthquake has destroyed the homes of thousands of Nepalese people, and aftershocks ensue .
article_snippet.sent: Sunthalia's home was destroyed in Jharibar, a village in the hilly Gorkha district of Nepal close to the quake's epicentre.
article_snippet.sent: More than 5,500 people are confirmed to have died after Saturday’s, with authorities fearing that the death toll could rise to 10,000.
article_snippet.sent: Thousands of houses and other buildings have been destroyed, and the country has been plagued by more than 70 aftershocks in the five days since the natural disaster.
article_snippet.sent: Homeless Nepalese are now fleeing the country in fear, with tens of thousands of people having left Kathmandu, and the government is providing a free service bus service to many destinations.
article_snippet.sent: The slow pace of the operation to save the boyd sparked clashes between police and desperate earthquake survivors in Kathmandu, as tens of thousands of people are sleeping rough in 16 makeshi .
article_snippet.sent: On Wednesday, helicopters finally brought food, temporary shelter and other aid to villages northwest of Kathmandu in the mountainous Gorkha District near the epicentre, where entire clusters of homes have been reduced to rubble.
article_snippet.sent: Devastated: People search for People belongings among the rubble at the heritage town of Bhaktapur .
article_snippet.sent: A man crosses a square covered in debris from collapsed buildings on April 30, 2015 in Harisiddhi .
article_snippet.sent: A woman looks at the rubble of destroyed buildings in the village of Sankhuckhock Sukute .