USA Today — Nepalese are at a loss for words as the official death toll from the devastating April 25 earthquake surpasses 5,500.
The 7.9-magnitude earthquake wiped out historical monuments, flattened homes and villages and injured at least 11,175 injured victims, according to Nepal’s National Emergency Operation Centre.
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Prakriti Maskey, an international student and president of the Nepali Student Association at St. Cloud University in Minnesota, says seeing her family suffering has proved devastating.
“All I can do is cry whenever I think about it,” Maskey says.
When Maskey first heard about the earthquake, she tried calling her mother. But the phone lines were inaccessible at the time. After several hours of constant worrying, Maskey said she received word from her relatives on Facebook about her mom’s safety.
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