At least 6 people died and 5 were injured this Wednesday in Nepal after a earthquake of magnitude 5.6 shook the west of the country during the night and destroyed several houses.
Six people died buried in the western district of Doti when his house collapsed from the tremors, he informed EFE District Deputy Superintendent of Police, Bhola Bhatta.
In addition, five people were admitted to hospital and “nearly a dozen houses collapsed”added the officer.
Among the dead are an 8-year-old boy, a 13-year-old girl, two 14-year-old girls, a 40-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man, Bhatta said.
The magnitude 5.6 earthquake occurred around 02:00 local time, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), which recorded its epicenter 21 kilometers east of the rural municipality of Dipayalabout 450 kilometers west of Kathmandu.
However, Nepal’s National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Center raised the quake to a magnitude of 6.6.
The Nepali Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deubahexpressed his condolences to the victims this morning and stated on Twitter that he had instructed “the relevant agencies to provide immediate and adequate treatment for the wounded and victims in relief and rescue operations in the affected areas.”
The tremors were also noted in various regions of northern India, such as in New Delhialthough authorities reported no casualties.
In the minutes that followed, social networks were filled with comments from users describing having felt a tremor lasting about ten seconds, while some videos showed how some fences or the lamps that hang from the roof of the houses had wobbled slightly.
According to USGS data, another 4.8 earthquake had struck the same region the day before.
On April 25, 2015, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, toppling multi-story buildings in Kathmandu, and triggering landslides and avalanches in the mountains. Almost 9,000 people died and more than 22,000 were injured.
That catastrophe also left hundreds of thousands of people homeless and caused damage valued at nearly 6,470 million euros. Seven years after the earthquake, the reconstruction work has not finished, slowed down in part by the effects of the pandemic.
(With information from EFE)
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