Kathmandu, Nepal. 30th April, 2015. Narayan Shrestha, a body burner, with his friends at the Pashupati cremation site in Kathmandu, Nepal, 29 April 2015. He has never been as busy as the last five days, he said. In largely Hindu Nepal, the dead are usually cremated in a funeral pyre on cremation grounds called ghats. The funeral pyres at a Kathmandu cremation site burn around the clock as ever more bodies of earthquake victims - many unclaimed - arrive at their doors. Credit: dpa picture alliance/Alamy Live News
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Narayan Shrestha, a body burner, with his friends at the Pashupati cremation site in Kathmandu, Nepal, 29 April 2015. He has never been as busy as the last five days, he said. In largely Hindu Nepal, the dead are usually cremated in a funeral pyre on cremation grounds called ghats. The funeral pyres at a Kathmandu cremation site burn around the clock as ever more bodies of earthquake victims - many unclaimed - arrive at their doors. More than 5, 500 people have been confirmed killed by Saturday's 7.8-magnitude earthquake, over 1, 000 of those in the capital. Officials and workers at the site say they have never seen more dead bodies in such a short span of time ever before. Photo: Subel Bhandari/dpa