
An airman from the Indian Air Force aboard the Mi-17 on its relief and medical evacuation mission.

Collapsed buildings among the terraced fields of Melamchi, a village in Sindhupalchok District, central Nepal. Officials say 1,376 people in the district died as a result of the earthquake.

Local residents, standing outside a damaged building, watch the relief plane flying overhead.

Nepalese soldiers offload much needed aid supplies, including packages of rice, noodles and tuna, medicine and tents once they land in Melamchi.

Soldiers load an elderly injured woman who has been brought to the landing zone on a pick-up onto a stretcher to carry her to the aircraft.

Kathmandu viewed from above. The tents seen at the bottom left house people who have been displaced from their homes because of the quake. Many people in the city are sleeping outside, fearful that their homes could crumble if an aftershock strikes.

Soldiers carry a man from Melamchi who was injured in the Nepal quake through the air base in Kathmandu for medical treatment.

Injured earthquake victims are laid out on stretchers at an emergency army triage center at the air base in Kathmandu.

Forshani Tamang, whose children carried her for four hours from her village, Bachunde, to Malamchi for help, is picked up at the Kathmandu air base to be taken to hospital.

