Seventeen days after large parts of Nepal were destroyed by a large earthquake, the country was hit by a powerful aftershock Tuesday that sent people crying and running back into the streets, as the grief-stricken country prepared to confront a new tragedy.
Please enable JavaScript to view this content. Open this photo in gallery: A USAID rescue team sniffer dog works to find survivors at the site of a building that collapsed in an earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal. Niranjan Shrestha/The Associated Press
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Open this photo in gallery: A woman injured in an earthquake walks toward a hospital soon after the earthquake in Sankhu, Nepal. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
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Open this photo in gallery: A rescuer carries a man on his back as authorities carry out rescue operations after a fresh 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal. Reuters
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Open this photo in gallery: A man digs on the debris of a collapsed house after a fresh 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, in Sankhu Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
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Open this photo in gallery: People gather in the safety of open space following a further major earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal. Jonas Gratzer/Getty Images
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Open this photo in gallery: Indian hospital staff attend to a schoolgirl who fainted as a tremor struck at Siliguri Hospital in Siliguri, Nepal. Diptendu Dutta/AFP / Getty Images
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Open this photo in gallery: Nepalese people take refuge on a street after an earthquake hit Kathmandu, Nepal. Bikram Rai/The Associated Press
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Open this photo in gallery: A man stands on the debris of collapsed houses after a fresh 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck in Sankhu, Nepal. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
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Open this photo in gallery: An Injured Nepalese woman cries as she is taken to hospital after an earthquake hit Kathmandu, Nepal. Niranjan Shrestha/The Associated Press
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Open this photo in gallery: Local residents gather inside their temporary makeshift shelter after a fresh 7.3 earthquake struck, in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters
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Open this photo in gallery: People walk past a collapsed building after a fresh 7.3 earthquake struck, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters
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Open this photo in gallery: TOPSHOTS Rescue team officials search for survivors at a collapsed building in Kathmandu , Napal. Prakash Mathema/AFP / Getty Images
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Open this photo in gallery: Dust rises as earth movers clear debris from damage caused by an earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal. Bikram Rai/The Associated Press
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Open this photo in gallery: Local residents gather inside their temporary makeshift shelter after a fresh 7.3 earthquake struck, in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters
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