By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 2:38 PM on 20th September 2011 Rescue workers dug through mudslides as they struggled today to reach thousands of villagers cut off by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 53 people and damaged more than 100,000 homes in mountainous north-eastern India, Nepal and Tibet. Heavy rains slowed the relief effort and made conditions miserable for many homeless villagers as they prepared to spend the night outside. Three emergency workers were killed in the frantic rescue effort, Indian Home Secretary RK Singh said. Hole in the wall: huvadra Pathi looks out from her apartment after a section of it collapsed in an earthquake in Kathmandu
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Dozens injured as wall toppled outside building
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At least 50 deaths as shock is also felt in India and Tibet
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Mudslides block access to worst-affected remote areas
Rescue mission: @placeholder troops on the streets of Kathmandu after the quake hit last night with a magnitude of 6.9