KATHMANDU: The joyous rescue of two survivors of last weekend’s Nepal earthquake added new urgency Friday to the search for signs of life in the ruins of Kathmandu as the Red Cross warned of “total devastation” in remote areas.

Six days on from the 7.8-magnitude quake, authorities put the number of dead in Nepal at more than 6,200 while around 100 more were killed in neighboring India and China.

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