Nepal quake death toll rises to 3617

Nepalese women remove bricks of the damaged house to make way for pedestrians after an earthquake of magnitude 6.9 shook northeastern India on Sunday night, in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. Rescue workers used shovels and their bare hands to pull bodies from the debris of collapsed buildings Monday, as the death toll from an earthquake that hit northeast India, Nepal and Tibet rises. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Nepali police say the death toll in the country has risen to at least 3617 people from the earthquake that hit on the weekend.

The police statement did not immediately give any other details.

So far 18 people have also been confirmed dead in an avalanche that swept through the Mount Everest base camp after the earthquake.

Another 61 people were killed in neighbouring India, and 20 in China’s Tibet region.

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