Feature: A survivor's account on Nepal's devastating earthquake

"All houses turned to debris within a minute after the earthquake on Saturday afternoon. Many people couldn't come out from their house but we and some my neighbors managed to rush toward an open place immediately," a resident of Rasuwagadi of Rasuwa District of Central Nepal, Man Bahadur Tamang, told Xinhua.

Tamang, 38, a survivor of Nepal's earthquake who is also the president of Nepal-China Keyrung Business Association, expressed dismay over the government's dilly-dallying to evacuate around 1, 000 people badly injured in his hometown. The Nepal government has declared Rasuwa District as one of the badly-affected earthquake districts. However, the government has not dispatched rescue and medical teams to Rasuwagadi so far, Tamang said.

"It was so scary to witness such an earthquake first time in my life," Tamang said.

Rasuwagadi is far about 131.5 Kilometers from the Capital and the border point between Nepal and China. Nepal and China had established Rasuwagadi as the new border point in December last year. Nepal and China have set up custom offices and border frontiers as well.

Tamang has arrived in the Capital City to ask government officials to dispatch rescue teams and provide relief and support to the quake-hit people in Rasuwa District as early as possible.

"I guess around 5,00 people are killed and 90 percent of houses have been collapsed in my hometown in the deadliest earthquake that followed by so many aftershocks," he said.

The Araniko Highway which links Nepal and China has been cut off, causing difficulties in rescue operation.

"Now we are waiting for the government's support to rescue the people who are injured and to conduct final rites of the killed people. We hope the government provides relief support for us as early as possible," Tamang added.

The 7.9-magnitude quake struck Nepal at midday on Saturday. It has also caused property damages worth billions of U.S. dollars. Endi