Nation Capital

nation capital: More than 7,200 are reported injured, according to The Chronicle Herald. Kathmandu, the nation capital and home to 1.7 million people, is without water, food or electricity. The death toll in the landlocked, partly mountainous nation is now more than 4,000 and is expected to climb as rescuers reach remote villages, many cut off by landslides, at the quake epicentre northwest of Kathmandu. Streets are impassable, filled with people who are homeless or afraid to return to damaged homes as aftershocks of up to 4.6 on the Richter scale continue. Mitchell Pineo of Berwick, in Nepal for a music festival, told his mother that Kathmandu resembles a war zone. Heavy rain is forecast. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.