The earthquake that rocked us yesterday- in pictures.
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- Rescuers in action last evening at the British embassy in Kathmandu where the embassy compound wall collapsed because of the earthquake killing three people and damaging at least a car. Pic by Kiran Pandey via Kantipur
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- Prime Minister Bhattarai, extreme left in black cap, and Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal dahal “Prachanda” (middle, bespectacled and talking on phone) are surrounded by Maoist lawmakers outside the Constituent Assembly (parliament) building in New Baneshwar, Kathmandu, soon after the earthquake shook the Chinese-made building. Kantipur TV broadcast a footage of the parliamentary proceeding in which the Speaker- Subash Chandra Nembang- was seen calm and composed as the quake started shaking the building. He adjured the meeting only after some lawmakers started running out of the meeting hall shouting and screaming. Pic by Shaligram Tiwari via Kantipur
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- A man shows cracked walls of his home soon after the earthquake in Siliguri, India. Pic by AFP
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- Shaken locals gather at an open space in Mangal Bazaar, Lallitpur immediately after the earthquake. Pic by Bikas Rauniar via Kantipur
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- A house in Taplejung district of Nepal was damaged by the 6.8 earthquake that shook parts of Nepal and north eastern India. Pic by Ananda Gautam via Kantipur
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- British embassy compound wall collapses over a car in Kathmandu. Pic by Kiran Pandey
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- Fire erupted from an electricity transmission pole during the earthquake in Kathmandu yesterday
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- A family in Taplejung, the eastern most district of Nepal that was epicenter of yesterday’s earthquake- shaken by the earthquake that damaged their home. Pic taken yesterday evening. Pic by Ananda Gautam
