Last week it was a town, now it's a graveyard. There have been some miraculous stories of people found alive up to six days after the disaster, which was India's worst for half a century. But British rescuers are scaling down their searches. The emergency response team sent by the Department for International Development was due to return to Britain on Thursday. This includes building shelters, connecting clean water supplies, repairing the area's transport infrastructure and distributing food and clothes.
Reports say survivors of the quake are beginning to fall ill from lack of clean water.
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