2023-11-04 14:35:38
Emergency services are organizing to search for survivors. At least 143 people died in an earthquake that shook a remote region of Nepal, according to a new report Saturday from Nepalese authorities. The 5.6 magnitude earthquake was measured at a depth of 18 km according to the American Geological Survey USGS. It hit the far west of the Himalayan country late Friday evening. Its epicenter was located 42 km south of Jumla, not far from the border with Tibet.
“105 people died in Jajarkot and 38 in Rukum,” said Interior Ministry spokesperson Narayan Prasad Bhattarai, citing the two districts at this stage most affected by the earthquake, located in the south of the epicenter in the border province of Karnali.
Already an earthquake in November 2022
More than 100 injured were counted in these two districts, said Nepalese police spokesperson Kuber Kathayat. Nepali security forces have been widely deployed in earthquake-hit areas to assist in relief operations, according to Karnali provincial police spokesperson Gopal Chandra Bhattarai.
In Jajarkot, the area hospital was stormed by residents transporting injured people there. Videos and photos posted on social media show residents digging through rubble in the dark to extract survivors from collapsed buildings. In November 2022, a 5.6 magnitude earthquake killed six people in the Doti district, near Jajarkot struck on Friday evening.
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