'The one-storey building began shaking severely. I saw the building in front swaying left and right and then crack.' Photo: AP
'The one-storey building began shaking severely. I saw the building in front swaying left and right and then crack.' Photo: AP
Nepalese rescue workers search for survivors at the scene of a house collapse. Photo: EPA
Nepalese rescue workers search for survivors at the scene of a house collapse. Photo: EPA
Rescue workers search for survivors amid the rubble in Kathmandu. Photo: EPA
Rescue workers search for survivors amid the rubble in Kathmandu. Photo: EPA
Many houses in Kathmandu collapsed during the 7.3-magnitude quake. Photo: EPA
Many houses in Kathmandu collapsed during the 7.3-magnitude quake. Photo: EPA
Rescue workers search through rubble for survivors. Photo: EPA
Rescue workers search through rubble for survivors. Photo: EPA
Local residents comfort each others during an earthquake. Photo: Reuters
Local residents comfort each others during an earthquake. Photo: Reuters
Frightened Kathmandu residents move to find open ground. Photo: EPA
Frightened Kathmandu residents move to find open ground. Photo: EPA
Nepal earthquake 2015
Asia /  South Asia

‘I ran for my life through the streets of Kathmandu as another earthquake rocked the city’

Kathmandu-based journalist Bibek Bhandari gives a startling account of the panic in the Nepalese capital after another quake struck on Tuesday

Bibek Bhandari

Updated: 11:23am, 13 May, 2015

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'The one-storey building began shaking severely. I saw the building in front swaying left and right and then crack.' Photo: AP
'The one-storey building began shaking severely. I saw the building in front swaying left and right and then crack.' Photo: AP
Nepalese rescue workers search for survivors at the scene of a house collapse. Photo: EPA
Nepalese rescue workers search for survivors at the scene of a house collapse. Photo: EPA
Rescue workers search for survivors amid the rubble in Kathmandu. Photo: EPA
Rescue workers search for survivors amid the rubble in Kathmandu. Photo: EPA
Many houses in Kathmandu collapsed during the 7.3-magnitude quake. Photo: EPA
Many houses in Kathmandu collapsed during the 7.3-magnitude quake. Photo: EPA
Rescue workers search through rubble for survivors. Photo: EPA
Rescue workers search through rubble for survivors. Photo: EPA
Local residents comfort each others during an earthquake. Photo: Reuters
Local residents comfort each others during an earthquake. Photo: Reuters
Frightened Kathmandu residents move to find open ground. Photo: EPA
Frightened Kathmandu residents move to find open ground. Photo: EPA
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