People held up handwritten signs asking for donations of oxygen cylinders, drills and water bottles.

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Officials said they were working to extricate the remaining survivors and had passed oxygen cylinders and water to those still trapped.

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The process is expensive and lengthy, and includes bringing all non-disposables, like batteries and empty oxygen cylinders, back to Kathmandu and on to their home countries.

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Seven oxygen cylinders being stored in the loft of a house caused the fire which quickly spread to three other properties in the terraced row.

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He adds that teams from the army, the fire service and border guards had been drilling holes through concrete walls and pushing through oxygen cylinders and water bottles in an attempt to keep those trapped alive until they could be freed.

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