THE TINY GAP BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH: ENTOMBED ALIVE WITH THE BODY OF HIS FRIEND, NEPAL EARTHQUAKE VICTIM IS FINALLY PULLED FREE AS DEATH TOLL RISES TO 2,500
More bodies are being pulled from destruction in cities 'by the hour' as the death toll continues to rise By Sara Malm and Jennifer Smith and Stephanie Linning and Hannah Parry For Mailonline
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- The earthquake survivor was pulled from rubble of his home in Swyambhu in the Kathmandu Valley on Sunday
- He had been stuck with the lifeless body of his friend after the building they were in collapsed around them
- In the Nepalese capital city of Kathmandu the bodies of hundreds killed have been laid out in the street
- Rescue teams are frantically using their hands to dig out survivors as aid relief from neighbouring India arrives
- As many as 18 climbers on Mount Everest were killed when base camp was swallowed by avalanche on Saturday
- More bodies are being pulled from destruction in cities 'by the hour' as the death toll continues to rise
Weeping with relief, a survivor of the Nepalese earthquake is pulled from what remains of his ruined home after spending the night buried alive.
Among the debris which entombed him for 24 hours is a lifeless body, one of more than 2,500 across the Himalayas in the wake of the escalating disaster.
The corpse is that of the man's friend - the last person he spoke to before disaster struck his home in Swyambhu in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Cheek-to-cheek, they were both pulled from the rubble on Sunday, a day after the 7.8 earthquake wreaked havoc across Nepal.
In the capital city, the bodies of those buried alive have been laid in the street beneath white sheets. Their grieving relatives have prepared them for cremation, setting up make-shift funeral pyres in the city's open spaces.
Hundreds are still missing, chief among them climbers stranded on Mount Everest after an avalanche triggered by the tremor buried its base camp on Saturday afternoon.
Appealing to the international community, survivors begged for blood and care packages to sustain the remaining population as surgeons began operating on the wounded in tents, their theatres destroyed in the quake.
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