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Riot police intervene as anger erupts among Nepal quake survivors

– Rescued after 82 hours –

Rescue teams from a large number of countries are helping the hard-pressed authorities in one of Asia’s poorest nations.

French rescuers managed to pluck one man from the rubble of his Kathmandu home late on Tuesday after he was trapped under masonry for around 82 hours.

Barely conscious and covered in dust, 27-year-old Rishi Khanal was taken to hospital in an ambulance after being fitted with a neck brace and having a drip attached to his right arm.

But rescuers underlined the daunting scale of the task.

“It’s a very difficult disaster zone, very compact and on top of that it’s been raining,” Pascal Montant, part of the French rescue team, told AFP after one fruitless search of wreckage.

“When I took my dog off the leash it didn’t give out any signal, it didn’t bark, which means that possibly there’s no one inside.”

In Gorkha, one of the worst-hit districts, terrified residents ran with outstretched arms towards an Indian army helicopter to plead for food and water.

An AFP journalist on board saw scores of houses across several villages in the district reduced to mounds of wood and corrugated tin roofs.

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“We haven’t had any food here since the earthquake. Everything has changed, we don’t have anything left here,” Sita Gurung told AFP, gesturing towards what was left of her home in the village of Lapu.

An army officer lifted her onto a stretcher and carried her away.

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