Relatives prepare Nepal's quake dead for cremation

STORY: Sitting by bodies shrouded in white cloth in a tarpaulin tent, relatives prepared garlands of marigolds for the Hindu cremation rites held on the banks of the Bheri River.

At least 157 people were killed when the quake struck the Jajarkot region on Friday night (November 3) with a 6.4 magnitude, Nepal's National Seismological Centre said. The German Research Centre for Geosciences measured it at 5.7 and the U.S. Geological Survey at 5.6.