Two parents digging in the rubble for the body of their 16-month-old daughter said local police would not help.Next door in Sindhupalchok district, every mud-and-stone house was cracked, and many had collapsed outright.
While many sites have collapsed in the past with the downturn of many internet based businesses, many smaller sites have generated good money by concentrating on a certain niche and some sub-niches.
"A restaurant and many shops have collapsed," said Ibn-e-Ali, a former judge.
Many people have collapsed and died without even knowing they had heart disease.
Short on commercial skill and often subject to government meddling, many banks have collapsed and others have dangerously accumulated non-performing loans.The Baltic states, Hungary and Poland went through costly banking crises in the early 1990s.
Huang Zhichun, an official in the county's education department, said in a telephone interview: "Based on the fact that so many schools have collapsed, the standard is not good enough.
Many houses have collapsed and people are injured.
Many buildings have collapsed or been torn down, with the rubble simply left on the spot.
Home Minister Bam Dev Gautam said: "Many houses have collapsed in Dolakha... there is a chance that the number of dead from the district will go up".
