Kathmandu

A new avalanche in Rasuwa in Eastern Nepal has left up to 250 people missing, according to media sources.

An official is quoted by iTV News as saying the trekking area of Rasuwa in Nepal, north of the capital city Kathmandu, was hit by an avalanche on Tuesday afternoon (evening in Nepal).

The new avalanche has also been reported by the BBC.

A new shocking video depicts rescue crews in Nepal, saving a man who was able to cling on to dear life under the rubble of a building for two whole days after the earthquake.

The rescue crews are continuing their momentous operations in Kathmandu as the list is ever-growing.

The 7.8-magnitude quake that hit Nepal on Saturday that destroyed buildings in Kathmandu and severely affected rural areas has seen the death toll rise to 4,310 with almost 8,000 injured, say officials.

Water, food and electricity are in short supply.

Bulgarian authorities have established contact with all Bulgarian nationals whose stay in Nepal has been registered, according to Petko Todorov, Bulgaria's Ambassador to India.

Todorov told the Bulgarian National Television that there was no information about injured Bulgarians in Saturday's 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Nepal.

Rescuers in Nepal battled April 28 to reach remote communities devastated by a huge earthquake that has killed at least 4,310 people, as the impoverished country's leader said relief workers had still not reached many of the worst-hit area.

Close to 4,000 people are known to have died in Nepal and neighbouring, India and China as a result of Saturday's earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, the CNN has reported.

By nightfall on Monday in Nepal's capital Katmandu more than 7,000 people were known to have been injured.

A Greek woman who was feared missing in Nepal following a deadly earthquake has informed her family she is well.

The Cretan woman?s father told Mega TV on Monday that his daughter had been in a mountain village when the 7.8 Richter earthquake struck and had not realised the damage it caused.

Nepalese officials scrambled on April 27 to get aid from the main airport to people left homeless and hungry by a devastating earthquake two days earlier, while thousands tired of waiting fled the capital Kathmandu for the surrounding plains.

The death toll from Nepal's earthquake rose to 3,218 on April 27, two days after the massive quake ripped across this Himalayan nation, leaving tens of thousands shell-shocked and sleeping in streets.
     
Aid groups received the first word from remote mountain villages - reports that suggested many communities perched on mountainsides were devastated or struggling to cope.

A 25-year-old Bulgarian is now missing in Nepal after a devastating tremor which hit the country on Saturday, his relatives say.

The information was first revealed through Google's Person Finder tool which was launched after the earthquake to help people in Nepal and from across the globe track friends and family members.