article_snippet.sent: Meanwhile, corpses continued to line the streets of the city, lying among three-day-old debris still evident from the   tremor which wreaked havoc through the Himalayan region.
article_snippet.sent: This afternoon, the death toll reached 4,000.
article_snippet.sent: The sick and wounded were lying out in the open in Kathmandu, unable to find beds in the devastated city's hospitals.
article_snippet.sent: Surgeons set up an operating theatre inside a tent in the grounds of Kathmandu Medical College.
article_snippet.sent: And high in the Himalayas, hundreds of climbers were staying put at the Mount Everest base camp where a huge avalanche after The magnitude-7.8 quake killed 17 people in the single worst disaster to hit the world's highest mountain.