'All of a sudden I saw light': Boy who survived quake tells of his ordeal

A young boy has told how he was buried alive for five days after the Nepal earthquake that killed more than 6,000 people.

'All of a sudden I saw light': Boy who survived quake tells of his ordeal

A young boy has told how he was buried alive for five days after the Nepal earthquake that killed more than 6,000 people.

Pempa Tamang, 15, said he listened to bulldozers clearing mountains of debris, fearful the incessant aftershocks might collapse the darkened crevice he was trapped in.

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