Hundreds of villages in the central Nepalese district of Gorkha were among the hardest hit by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the country on Saturday. The remote and mountainous region, home to an estimated 270,000 people, is struggling to evacuate survivors, with rescue efforts hampered by landslides.

On Monday, I arrived in the district’s main village, also called Gorkha. Under normal circumstances the outlying villages are one or two days’ walk from the government headquarters, but many have been cut off by the quake. Local officials coordinating the relief effort need help, but do not know how or from whom to get it.
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At the hospital I met a 75-year-old man with a deep laceration and fracture of his leg. He told me 90% of his village, or about 1,100 households, had been destroyed before his eyes. He was overcome with emotion and struggled to speak. He had been born in that village, Barpak, and had spent his entire life there. When the earthquake struck he said it was like a volcanic explosion, with rocks flying everywhere.
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The villagers remain anxious about the fate of their family, friends and others in the community. The current death toll in Barpak is 11, but many more villagers remain trapped under the rubble and are yet to be accounted for.

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