Quake death toll reaches 4,680

 9,073 sustained injuries 

Kathmandu, Apr. 28, 2015:

The devastating earthquake has killed 4,680 people by Tuesday evening while 9,073 sustained injuries during the tremors.

The quake on Saturday afternoon with the epicenter at Barpak of Gorkha, measured 7.9 on the Richter Scale, has claimed the lives of 1,448 people of Kathmandu Valley while 4,896 people in the valley injured during the jolts.

According to spokesperson of Nepal Police, DIG Kamal Singh Bam, the death toll would rise as the rescue operations continue.

Rescue operations have just started in some of the remote areas.

There was a massive loss of human life and property in the quake.

The earthquake killed people as far as Taplejung, district bordering with India in the east, and Rukum, hill district in Mid-Western Region.

It has devastated large number of human settlements in the mid Hill areas causing highest damages to lives and property in Kathmandu Valley, Sindhupalchowk, Gorkha, Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading districts.

As many as 30 districts witnessed the loss of lives and property during the jolts.

Although deaths have not been reported from many of the districts from Western Region so far, more than two thirds of houses have been destroyed by the quake.

 Sindhupalchowk has the highest death toll rising to 1,250. The quake claimed the lives of 1,039 people in Kathmandu, 250 in Bhaktapur and 159 in Bhaktapur.   

The number of death in Nuwakot district is 560 while the jolts claimed 374 lives in Gorkha.

Rasuwa, Dhading and Kavre are the district with more than 200 deaths. 250 deaths have been reported so far from Rasuwa while 346 lost their lives in Dhading and 252 in Kavre.

Central Region of Nepal, which also includes the Kathmandu Valley, has the largest incidents of death where 4245 people succumbed to the earthquake while 7717 people sustained injuries.

Western Region has 382 deaths and 1119 individual sustained injuries.

The quake claimed 51 lives from the Eastern Region while 2 deaths were reported from Mid-Western region so far.