Local residents in the quake-stricken Jajarkot district of Nepal on Monday were reeling from the damage to their houses after the Himalayan nation was hit by an earthquake late Friday that killed 157.
Thousands of buildings in Jajarkot and the neighboring Rukum West district have collapsed or developed cracks making them uninhabitable.
Sifting through debris and trying to retrieve what was left, some residents appeared at a loss for what the future holds for them.
“We have nothing left,” Pavitra Chalaune Giri who was holding her child told Reuters.
“What to do, we are in a very bad situation. The children are complaining that they are hungry. We don’t have a place to stay nor food to eat or clothes to wear. No one is looking after us,” she added.
The 6.4 magnitude quake is deemed Nepal’s worst in eight years, when about 9,000 people were killed by two quakes that reduced whole towns and centuries-old temples to rubble and destroyed more than a million houses, at a cost of $6 billion to the $40 billion economy.
(Source: Reuters)
