Maria Goretti shares shocking fact about ground reality in Nepal

Mumbai: Saturday's magnitude 7.8 earthquake, in Nepal, which was centred outside Kathmandu, was the worst to hit the poor South Asian nation in over 80 years. It destroyed swaths of the oldest neighbourhoods of Kathmandu, and was strong enough to be felt all across parts of India, Bangladesh, China's region of Tibet and Pakistan.

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Many Bollywood celebrities kept social media abuzz with their reactions. While Arjun Rampal and Mugdha Godse faced the tremors in Delhi, popular actor Arshad Warsi’s wife, Maria Goretti, tweeted a shocking truth about the situation.

My friend @kichiepoo still stranded in Nepal, just told me the Australians were evacuated last night Water being sold for ?500/- 27 tremors

— maria goretti (@mariagorettiz) April 26, 2015

By Sunday morning, authorities said at least 1,970 people had died, all but 60 of them in Nepal. At least 721 of them died in Kathmandu alone.