April 25 quake deadliest in Nepal’s history

The death toll from the April 25 quake in Nepal on Sunday topped 8,500, making the temblor the deadliest of all times for the Himalayan nation, triggering as many as 240 aftershocks and injuring around 20,000 people.

The monster temblor last month and its aftershocks killed as many as 8,567 people till Sunday. The number of people killed due to the April 25 temblor reaching 8,426 and the number of people killed from last week’s quake rising to 141, according to Nepal Police. The number of injured from the April 25 temblor touched 17,884 while that from the last week’s reached 3,142. The 1934 quake had earlier been the country’s worst disaster of all times.