"As of now, over 4,800 people have been killed by the natural disaster [in Nepal], although the full scale of the damage has yet to be determined, as many mountainous areas and faraway villages remain unreachable. Prime Minister Sushil Koirala told Reuters the death toll could reach 10,000, a number exceeding the 8,500 deaths that occurred in the 1934 earthquake. Aside from the thousands of lives lost, Nepal's culture was irreparably wounded, as well." (Read more here)
