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Nepalese army soldiers prepare to leave for a rescue mission to the site where the suspected wreckage of a US Marine helicopter, that disappeared earlier this week while on a relief mission in the earthquake-hit Himalayan nation, was spotted, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, May 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
May 15, 2015, 2:28 pm
Nepal rescuers find 3 bodies near crashed Marine chopper
Helicopter belonged to 300-strong American aid force deployed in earthquake-ravaged nation
By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA and Nirmala George
A Nepalese man runs to safety after a second earthquake hit Nepal in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, May 12, 2015 (AP Photo/Bikram Rai)
May 12, 2015, 3:00 pm
At least 42 killed as another large quake hits Nepal
Massive temblor strikes less than a month after a devastating earthquake killed 8,150 people in the hilly Asian country
By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA and KATY DAIGLE
Nepalese patients are carried out of a hospital building after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit the country, in Kathmandu on Tuesday, May 12, 2015 (AFP PHOTO / PRAKASH MATHEMA)
May 12, 2015, 10:39 am
At least 19 killed as another large quake hits Nepal
Massive temblor strikes less than a month after a devastating earthquake killed 8,150 people in the hilly Asian country
By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA and KATY DAIGLE
Nepalese residents gather in an open space at the site of destruction caused after Saturday's earthquake in Bhaktapur, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Niranjan Shrestha)
April 27, 2015, 4:02 pm
Quake-aid need acute in Nepal capital, more so in villages
Rescue workers, including nearly the entire Nepalese armed forces, continue to sift through rubble left by disaster
By KATY DAIGLE and BINAJ GURUBACHARYA
Residents rescue items from debris of a house that was damaged in Saturday’s earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
April 27, 2015, 12:39 pm
Nepal quake death toll passes 3,700
Rescuers struggle to reach remote areas where entire villages are believed destroyed from Saturday’s temblor
By KATY DAIGLE and BINAJ GURUBACHARYA
Family members break down during the cremation of an earthquake victim in Bhaktapur near Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, April 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
April 27, 2015, 8:00 am
Death toll in Nepal quake rises to more than 3,200
Mountainside communities in Himalayan nation devastated; tens of thousands sleeping in streets
By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA and KATY DAIGLE
Tents are seen set up for climbers on the Khumbu Glacier, with Mount Khumbutse, center, and Khumbu Icefall, right, seen in background, at Everest Base Camp in Nepal on April 11, 2015. An avalanche triggered by a massive earthquake in Nepal smashed into a base camp between the Khumbu Icefall, a notoriously treacherous rugged area of collapsed ice and snow, and the base camp where most climbing expeditions are, said Ang Tshering of the Nepal Mountaineering Association. (photo credit: AP Photo/Tashi Sherpa, File)
April 25, 2015, 8:08 pm
At least 10 dead in Everest avalanche triggered by quake
Ice and snow slam into a section of mountaineering base camp; climbers and sherpas among the dead
By Tim Sullivan and BINAJ GURUBACHARYA
A Nepalese army soldier searches for avalanche victims at Thorong La pass area in Nepal, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014. Nepalese officials closed a section of a popular Himalayan trekking route Sunday after rescuers, overwhelmed with last week's snowstorms that killed 38 hikers, had to bring to safety new climbers who set out on the same mountain trails where the blizzards struck. (photo credit: AP Photo/Nepalese Army)
October 20, 2014, 6:52 am
Nepal wraps up rescue work, closes route after 38 die in storm
Officials shut section of Annapurna circuit where dozens died, including three Israelis; fourth Israeli still missing
By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA
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