Dig: Nepal searches for quake survivors as toll rises to 1,900

Rescuers aided by international teams set out to dig through rubble of buildings in the earthquake-ravaged city of Kathmandu — concrete slabs, bricks, iron beams, wood — to look for survivors. Most areas were without power and water after Saturday’s magnitude 7.8 tremor. The United Nations said hospitals in the Kathmandu Valley were overcrowded, and running out of emergency supplies and space to store corpses.

I am tired and exhausted, but I have to work and have the strength.

Sudan Shreshtha, police officer in Kathmandu

Aftershocks shook the country Sunday, making buildings sway and sending panicked Kathmandu residents running into the streets — a magnitude 6.7, it was strong enough to feel like an another earthquake. There’s worry about people in remote villages — up to days away — whose houses are feared to have been completely buried by rock falls.

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