10.45 a.m. (0500 GMT)
Italy’s Foreign Ministry says four Italians are believed to be among those killed in the earthquake in Nepal over the weekend that killed more than 4,400 people.
The ministry says that based on information from their travel companions they were killed in the Langtang area, but noted that the area is still hard to access.
The ministry also said its crisis unit had not been able to reach about 40 Italian citizens believed to have been in the area.
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