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According to the Nepalese Ministry of Internal Affairs in a country devastated by the earthquake of the end of April today they killed at least 42 people and injured 1,117 people. Earlier reports of several fatalities.
According to authorities, the balance of today’s earthquake is expected to increase.
The epicenter of the tremors was located 68 km west of the town of Namche Bazar, near Mount Everest, at a depth of 19 km – provided the US secret services Geological (USGS). In the beginning it was reported that shocks were magnitude 7.1; later raised it to 7.4. It’s a little weaker earthquake than the one that struck Nepal more than two weeks ago.
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The shaking lasted more than a minute and was also felt in northern India, among others, in the capital – New Delhi, the capital of Bangladesh – Dhaka and in the capital of Tibet – Lhasa.
At least four people died in the state of Bihar, in northern India – EFE agency said, citing an official source.
The Chinese CCTV reported that in Tibet suffered the death of one person and two injured.
The earthquake occurred in the chair. 12.35 local time. In Kathmandu, people took to the streets; heard the sirens. A few minutes later there was a aftershocks of magnitude 5.6. People in panic tried to get through to loved ones in terror closed shops. The streets were full of locals who ran to their homes to check whether their families nothing happened – reports Reuters.
After the earthquake closed the airport in Kathmandu
The representative of the Embassy of India Abhay Kumar Nepal said in Kathmandu collapsed some buildings. He did not explain, however, how many they were or in which neighborhoods are located. According to the experts after the April shocks buildings in Kathmandu, they have severely compromised the structure and even if not collapse today they will face in the future.
After the earthquake also closed the airport in Kathmandu. After the April earthquake Airport has become the center of the delivery of international aid for victims.
In the April earthquake in Nepal killed 8 thousand. people
At the end of April, the strongest earthquake in 80 years in Nepal killed more than 8 thousand. people. Were wounded when more than 14 thousand. people – informed the Nepalese Ministry of Interior. It is, however, incomplete balance sheet of the victims.
“According to preliminary estimates, 8 million people in 39 districts of Nepal have been affected by the disaster, with over 2 million in 11 seriously damaged regions of the country, where 28 million people live” – sums up the UN . The April quake was magnitude 7.8.
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