Egypt paid condolences to Nepal’s
government and people after an earthquake had killed more than 1000 people and
injured thousands, according to an official statement on Saturday.
Egypt stressed it stands with Nepal in its
diversity, paying respects to the victims and wishing the wounded people were
recovered soon.
A powerful earthquake struck Nepal and
sent tremors through northern India on Saturday, killing more than 1,000 people,
toppling a 19th-century tower in the capital Kathmandu and touching off a
deadly avalanche on Mount Everest.
There were reports of devastation in
outlying, isolated mountainous areas after the midday quake of magnitude 7.9,
Nepal's worst in 81 years, centered 50 miles (80 km) east of the second city,
Pokhara.