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Drone Footage Reveals Extent Of Nepal Damage

Video shot from a drone has revealed the damage caused by the magnitude-7.8 quake which devastated Nepal as the number of dead rose above 4,000.

Thousands of sick and wounded are due to spend a third night out in the open because of the fear of more collapsing buildings.

The drone footage shows toppled monuments, cracks across major roads and widespread damage to residential buildings across the city.

It comes after another video showed the moment rescue workers pulled a man alive from rubble after two days being trapped under a collapsed building in Kathmandu.

The man had been buried underneath the building in the Sitapaila area of the city since the massive earthquake hit the region on Saturday.

A team of Turkish rescuers managed to dig him out. His condition is not known, although he was conscious and moving his head as he was pulled out.

Sky News Producer Neville Lazarus, speaking from Kathmandu airport, says there is growing anger among those in the city.

"There are no facilities at the airport or any other government-organised facilities around the city," he said.

"There is a picture of anger growing among the Nepalese people as well because there is no sanitation, there's no water, there's no clean drinking water, there are no facilities for cooking food."

Nearly 100 aftershocks, including one measured at magnitude 6.7, have hampered rescue efforts and frightened those sleeping in open squares and parks.

Many people have been unable to find beds in the city's devastated hospitals, with surgeons setting up an operating theatre inside a tent in the grounds of Kathmandu Medical College.

The quake is the worst to hit Nepal in at least 80 years. In 1934, an magnitude-8.0 earthquake virtually destroyed the cities of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Patan, leaving 8,500 people dead.

Several temples in the towns' historic UNESCO-listed Durbur Squares are among the building destroyed.

The death toll is expected to rise because many remote Himalayan villages have been cut off by landslides, meaning rescuers can only get there by helicopter.

US authorities, who revealed that at least four Americans are now known to have died, boosted the country's aid contribution to $10m (£6.5m) and the United Nations said it was donating $15m (£9.8m).

Tanya Barron, head of children's charity Plan UK, was visiting projects around 500km (310 miles) from Kathmandu when the earthquake hit.

She described driving through "empty" villages along the way.

She told Sky News: "We travelled for 12 hours in what should have probably been a seven hour journey. It's just an example of one of the problems in Nepal which is the terrain is extremely difficult, it's really challenging.

"All along the way we were coming to villages in the mountains, in the hills, where nobody was... where at every bend in the road there were houses demolished, piles of rubble, with families standing by them.

"It just went on an on. It would be hard to get support to these people in this sort of crisis anyway, but the geography of Nepal makes it really difficult."

Aid flights began delivering supplies on Sunday after Kathmandu's airport reopened.

Britain, which believes several hundred of its nationals are in Nepal , said it was sending supplies, medics and search-and-rescue teams.

Leading UK aid agencies announced a joint appeal under the banners of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) to help the survivors of the earthquake on Monday.

Hundreds of foreign and Nepalese climbers have been trapped in the Himalayas after a huge avalanche triggered by the quake tore through the Everest base camp, killing at least 18 people.

Footage has emerged of the moment the avalanche hit , sending mountaineers scrambling for cover.

Another 61 people were killed in neighbouring India, and China reported that 20 people had died in Tibet.

The Queen has said she was "shocked to hear of the appalling loss of life and injuries", adding that her "thoughts and prayers were with the victims".

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