Rescue Operation Intensifies After Massive Earthquake in Nepal

Efforts to rescue people trapped in the rubble of collapsed structures intensifies on Sunday, April 26, after a massive earthquake of 7.9 magnitude hit Nepal on April 25.

Nepalese rescue personnel help a trapped earthquake survivor.

Indian evacuees from earthquake hit Nepal are escorted from an IAF C-17 Globemaster aircraft as they arrive at Air Force Station Palam in New Delhi on April 26. (Image courtesy: AFP PHOTO / INDIAN AIRFORCE)

Indian soldiers on rescue mission to Nepal, board an Indian Air Force aircraft near New Delhi on Sunday.

Members of a Japanese rescue team leave Narita international airport, suburban Tokyo, for Nepal with a chartered plane. (Image courtesy: JIJI PRESS / AFP)

Rescue workers remove debris as they search for victims of earthquake in Bhaktapur near Kathmandu on April 26.

Rescuers scoop porridge for a foreign tourist at a temporary shelter near the China-Nepal border.

Earthquake victims are helped by a rescuer in Kathmandu's Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that was severely damaged by the earthquake on April 25

A boy smiles as he is rescued from a collapsed house in Kathmandu.

An excavator digs the rubble to search for the bodies in Kathmandu.

Rescue workers search for survivors in Kathmandu.

Nepalese rescue members gather at the collapsed Dharahara Tower in Kathmandu.

An injured person is carried by rescue members to be airlifted by rescue helicopter at Everest Base Camp on April 26, a day after an avalanche triggered by an earthquake devastated the camp.

A rescue helicopter prepares to land and airlift the injured from Everest Base Camp on April 26.

Relief material is loaded into an Indian Air Force aircraft headed to Nepal from New Delhi.

A paramilitary policeman speaks to a woman, in the earthquake hit Nepal, in Xigaze Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Nepalese rescue personnel observe damaged buildings.