A strong earthquake struck Nepal on Saturday with tremors being felt acorss South Asia.
An earthquake measuring 7.9 magnitude, and only 2 km deep, struck east of Pokhara in Nepal causing buildings in the capital Kathmandu to collapse.
The death toll from the powerful earthquake has risen to 758, a home ministry official said, of which 467 were in the Kathmandu Valley that is the most heavily populated part of the Himalayan country.
"Deaths have been reported from all regions except the far west. All our security personnel have been deployed to rescue and assist those in need,"national police spokesman Kamal Singh Bam told AFP.
A landmark nine-storey tower collapsed in Kathmandu after the massive earthquake hit the Nepalese capital, with several bodies seen at the site of the disaster, witnesses and television footage showed.
Around a dozen bodies were taken away from the ruins of the Dharhara tower in the centre of the capital which sustained massive damage when the 7.9 magnitude quake struck at lunchtime, according to an AFP photographer at the scene
At the main hospital in Kathmandu, people with broken limbs and arms were being rushed in for treatment. It was unclear how many people have been injured.
Images posted on social media showed massive cracks in roads and buildings collapsed in Kathmandu.
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