Ten days after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the Himalayan nation of Nepal, government authorities said foreign search-and-rescue workers should return home. Officials say it is unlikely the teams will find any more survivors alive inside the rubble strewing the streets of Kathmandu and rural villages near the quake’s epicenter.

“We have already asked them to go home,” a Nepal home ministry spokesman told reporters Tuesday.

Near the end of church services across the Kathmandu Valley on April 25, stunned Christians staggered toward exits as the power blinked off and the earth rocked beneath their feet.

For many Nepalese Christians, Saturday is the usual day of worship, and believers in the country’s small religious minority were winding down church services around noon when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the Himalayan nation and killed over 4,000 people. In Kathmandu, at least 80 worshippers died when an evangelical church collapsed.

NEPAL: As the death toll climbs above 5,000 in last Saturday’s earthquake, relief workers are getting in to assess both the human crisis and the archaeological disaster.