DHAKA: Rescue workers from different nations have started leaving Nepal as government urged foreign rescue workers to return home.

Since the April 25 earthquake, 4,050 rescue workers from 34 different nations reached to Nepal to help in rescue operations, provide emergency medical care and distribute food and other necessities.

Nepal government on Monday urged foreign rescue workers in the quake-hit capital to return home.

The death toll from the quake, Nepal’s worst in more than 80 years, has crossed 7,000, reports The Times of India.

BDST: 1247 HRS, MAY 05, 2015
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