NEPAL-DISASTER-EARTHQUAKE

A Nepalese resident clears debris from his damaged house in Balaju in Kathmandu on April 27, 2015. International aid groups and governments intensified efforts to get rescuers and supplies into earthquake-hit Nepal on April 26, 2015, but severed communications and landslides in the Himalayan nation posed formidable challenges to the relief effort. As the death toll surpassed 2,000, the US together with several European and Asian nations sent emergency crews to reinforce those scrambling to find survivors in the devastated capital Kathmandu and in rural areas cut off by blocked roads and patchy phone networks. AFP PHOTO/PRAKASH SINGH (Photo credit should read PRAKASH SINGH/AFP via Getty Images)