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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rojita Adhikari in Kathmandu

‘I survived. My family did not’: Nepal’s quake victims mourn and wait for aid

A woman stands amid the rubble of a mudbrick house on a mountainside
A survivor surveys the ruins of her house in Chiuri village in Nepal’s remote Jajarkot district. Many survivors remain in the open for fear of aftershocks. Photograph: P Mathema/AFP/Getty

Early on Saturday morning, Haris Bishwakarma learned he had become the sole guardian of his eight-year-old sister. His parents and two young brothers were killed in the powerful earthquake that hit Nepal last Friday evening.

The 17-year-old, from Chiuri village in Jajarkot district, was working in India to earn money to pay for his siblings’ education when he got the call. “I could not believe it. Immediately I took the bus, praying the news was not true.

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