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People sleep on an open space outside a house after an earthquake at Khalanga in Jajarkot, Nepal..
Thousands of villagers in the mountains of northwestern Nepal slept outdoors on Saturday night in the bitter cold after an earthquake killed at least 157 people and damaged or destroyed most homes...
Most of the houses in villages in Jajarkot district either collapsed or were severely damaged by the sudden earthquake on Friday night, while the few concrete houses in towns were also damaged...
We are waiting to cremate the bodies of our villagers and have been trying to take care of the people who were injured in the earthquake, said Lal Bahadur Bika, a resident of Chiuri village, pointing to 13 bodies wrapped in white cloth awaiting cremation on Sunday morning...
So many houses have collapsed and so many people have been buried, said Tika Ram Rana, who had his head wrapped in a white bandage...
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