Nepal earthquake in pictures: Images show devastating effects of quake that tore a country apart

More than 2,200 people are dead and 5,500 injured from the quake, with many more feared dead on Mount Everest

Relatives cry over a dead body of a victim at Bir Hospital in Kathmandu (EPA)

Pictures emerging from Nepal show the sheer volume of devastation caused by Saturday’s 7.8 magnitude earthquake, which has left people too scared to stay inside buildings, forcing them to camp outside.

Families have been finding shelter inside vans and cars instead, while cities made of tents have been erected next to streets’ worth of buildings now reduced to rubble.

People cremate the bodies of the victims of an earthquake in Bhaktapur (Reuters)

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A truck is covered in debris from a collapsed building (Getty Images)

A man runs down a street covered in debris after buildings collapsed under the force of the earthquake (Getty Images)

People have been forced to cremate the bodies of their families on large bonfires in open spaces, while hundreds of others lie on beds in hospitals awaiting treatment.

People rest inside a van where they have taken shelter as it is considered safer in cars than inside houses due to the repeated aftershocks (AP)

A Nepalese woman sits on a sofa outdoors surrounded by the debris of Saturday's earthquake (AP)

A Nepalese resident naps by the roadside in the aftermath of the earthquake (AFP)

A Japanese tourist is taken on a wheelchair to a hospital after being evacuated from Mount Everest Base Camp (AP)

As aid workers flock to the city attempting supply relief to those who desperately need it, the first survivors of the avalanche on Mount Everest have brought down from the mountain to hospitals in Kathmandu.

Family members break down during the cremation of an earthquake victim in Bhaktapur (AP)

An earthquake injured woman lies at a hospital in Kathmandu (AP)

A boy comforts his mother who was injured during an earthquake, at a trauma center in Kathmandu, Nepal (Reuters)

Thousands of people have died and many more had their homes destroyed in what is the worst earthquake to have ravaged the country in decades, while the 17 killed by the ensuing avalanche has been called the worst disaster Mount Everest has experienced.