The government has yet to fully assess the devastation wrought by the 7.8 magnitude quake, unable to reach many mountainous areas despite aid supplies and personnel pouring in from around the world.

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Sangita, a shop-owner sits on the top of a damaged temple as she watches rescue workers operating in KathmanduPicture: EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH

Over 200 Nepalis protested outside parliament in the capital Kathmandu, demanding the government increase the number of buses going to the interior hills and improve distribution of aid. "I haven't been able to contact my family members in the village," said Kayant Panday, one of the protesters, who said he woke up at 4am to get a bus to a badly hit area but was not

able to get one. "There is no way I can get information whether they are dead or alive."Picture: PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images

A child is seen through the window of a bus leaving KathmanduPicture: AP

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Earthquake victims argue with policemen during a protest against the government's lack of aid provided to the victims in KathmanduPicture: REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Nepalese police push back residents who began protesting after waiting for hours in line to board buses back to other towns and villages from KathmanduPicture: PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images

A 27-year-old man has spoken about the 82 hours he was trapped inside a collapsed hotel, forced to drink his own urine to survive. Rishi Khanal was saved by a French rescue team and told Associated Press how his foot was trapped after he was hit by falling masonry in a hotel in Kathmandu after Saturday's earthquake. "I had some hope but by yesterday I'd given up. My nails went all white and my lips cracked ... I was sure no one was coming for me. I was certain I was going to die."Picture: AP

It took several hours to rescue Mr Khanal after he kept "banging against the rubble".

"There was no sound going out, or coming in. I kept banging against the rubble and finally someone responded and came to help. I hadn't eaten or had anything to drink so I drank my own urine."

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Describing his relief to be free, he said: "It feels good. I am thankful."Picture: Reuters

A woman stands in front of the historic Bal Krishna Thapa Chhetry temple which was destroyed following the earthquake in KathmanduPicture: EPA

Prime Minister Sushil Koirala has told Reuters the death toll could reach 10,000, with information on casualties and damage from far-flung villages and towns yet to come in.

Above, houses on the higher reaches of mountains destroyed in the earthquake are seen from a helicopter near Dhadingbesti.Picture: AP Photo/Manish Swarup

A young girl rides in an Indian army aircraft during the rescue operation at Trishuli in NepalPicture: SIPA/REX Shutterstock

Earthquake survivors hold on to a cable as a military plane takes off with evacuees from Kathmandu to New DelhiPicture: AP

Nepalese army soldiers unload relief material from an Indian Air Force helicopter in DhadingbestiPicture: AP Photo/Manish Swarup

Rocks secure tent canvas covering the bodies of some of the people that died at Everest Base Camp as an earthquake triggered an avalanche that crashed through parts of the camp killing scores of

people.Picture: ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images

Ropes weighted down with water bottles are used to apply traction to the legs of an injured girl after she fractured them during Saturday's earthquake, at a hospital in Kathmandu, NepalPicture:

REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

A soldier stands guard in front of temples surrounded by pigeons in Durbar Square in KathmanduPicture: EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH

Locals line-up in a queue as they wait to collect water supplied by Nepal Water Corporation in KathmanduPicture: EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH

A damaged wall clock is seen lying in the debris of a collapsed house in KathmanduPicture: REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

People work together to remove debris from the ruins of a building in search for survivors in Bhaktapur, near KathmanduPicture: EPA/YONHAP

A general view of damaged buildings as Nepalese victims of the earthquake search for their belongings in BhaktapurPicture: Getty Images

A child takes shelter at an army pavilion in Tundikhel, KathmanduPicture: Xinhua /Landov / BarcroftMedia

Nepalese soldiers stand next to wrecked buildings in Durbar square, a Unesco world heritage site that was badly damaged by the earthquakePicture: PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images

Nepal military personnel load relief supplies onto a truck at the Gorkha district officePicture: Reuters

Nepalese collect water distributed in a tanker in KathmanduPicture: AP

Women look out from a window as they look at other residents looking for their belongings among the rubble of their destroyed homes in Sankhu on the outskirts of the Nepalese capital KathmanduPicture: NICOLAS

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Rescuers from Japan are seen in the historical centre of Kathmandu following a 7.8 magnitude earthquakePicture: PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images

Nepalese soldiers walk among debris in Bhaktapur, NepalPicture: David Ramos/Getty Images

The body of a victim of the earthquake that hit Nepal yesterday lays underneath debris from one of the collapsed buildings on April 26, 2015 in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Omar Havana/Getty Images

A Nepalese man performs rituals during the cremation of his mother who died in the earthquake in Bhaktapur, near Kathmandu, on April 26, 2015 Niranjan Shrestha/AP

Victims of Saturday's earthquake are cremated along a river in Kathmandu on April 27, 2015. Danish Siddiqui / Reuters

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