Indians returning home recount harrowing tales of devastation

Hundreds of people from Bihar's East Champaran district had gone to Nepal years ago to earn livelihood for a better life, knowing little that they would have to return home battered and bruised from a tragedy.
Many of those returning home and recuperating in hospitals in Motihari town have harrowing tales to tell about the chaos prevailing in Kathmandu and other towns in Nepal, and how some of them had to jump from multi-storied buildings to save their lives.
A 7.9 Richter Scale earthquake struck Nepal on Saturday and has claimed nearly 6,000 lives in that country and injured over 11,000 others.

Bodies lying under the rubble of destroyed buildings, shortage of food and other essential goods for survivors and desperation to return home by whatever mode of transportation, added to their misery, after being allegedly charged huge fare by transporters.
One of the evacuees, Rajkishore Prasad, who witnessed earthquake occurring right in front of his eyes at Kali Mata locality in Kathmandu at around noon that fateful day, said he was lucky enough to survive, though his hand got injured in the calamity.
A native of Narayan Pakaria chowk under Chauradano police station area of the East Champaran district, Prasad is recuperating at a special ward in Sadar Hospital since his return home, couple of days ago.

He said he saw heaps of human bodies lying under the debris of fallen houses and other structures immediately after the quake rocked the Himalayan nation.

"Many of people on verge of breathing their last cried for help, but nobody was there to come to their rescue," Prasad, a carpenter by profession, said, recounting the scenes, immediately after the calamity, in Kathmandu.
While he survived miraculously, his three friends jumped off buildings to survive the disaster, he claimed.
The East Champaran native said that with everything belonging to him being lost in the quake, he grew desperate to return home by whatever means to be with his family members and relatives.