Damaged Wooden House after landslides on the outskirts of Mangan area in North Sikkim on Friday, 23 September 2011, after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit the region 18 September 2011. Rescue teams backed by army sappers using explosives tried to force their way to the remote epicenter of a powerful Himalayan earthquake that killed 67 people in India, Nepal and Tibet. Before the grim search for more victims can even begin, the main challenge is to reach the isolated, mountainous impact zone on the border between India"s northeastern Sikkim state and Nepal after the quake
Photographer: Bhaskar Mallick
Tags: EarthQuakeSikkimManganArmyLandslide
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