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Quantity the number of deaths increased to 157 behind An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 occurred in NepalThis is the second deadliest earthquake recorded since 2015, when almost 9
Quantity the number of deaths increased to 157 behind An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 occurred in NepalThis is the second deadliest earthquake recorded since 2015, when almost 9 thousand people died.
In Jajarkot district, the epicenter of the morning earthquake, at least 105 people were killed and 81 injured, he said. EFE Nepal Police spokesman Kuber Kadayat.
Another 52 people were killed in the neighboring West Rukum district, where 85 people were also injured, the source said.
Total the number of injured is 166, According to the Nepalese police, although earlier army spokesman Krishna Prasad Bhandari in statements to EFE.
According to the National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Center of Nepal, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit Jajarkot last Friday evening.
Jajarkot Police Station Deputy Sub-Inspector Narendra Gautam noted that many affected areas do not have mobile phone network or electricity.
Kadayat said search teams had gained access to most of the earthquake-hit areas and said operations would continue on Sunday.
For its part, the Nepal Army has mobilized five helicopters and one aircraft, evacuating about 40 wounded so far from both districts to the cities of Nepalganj and Kathmandu, according to Bhandari.
Nepal is among the most disaster-prone countries and has a highly vulnerable population, mostly poor, and lacks sufficient infrastructure to deal with floods and earthquakes.
Seismologist from the state geology department Mukund Bhattarai told EFE that the high number of casualties in Jajarkot and Western Rukum is due to the structure of houses in the region.
“Many of the houses in these areas are made of mud and stone and built on steep slopes,” he said, comparing yesterday’s earthquake to similar houses in other areas where the structures are more stable.
To this should be added the time when the earthquake occurred, around midnight.
“They didn’t have time to run,” he lamented.
On April 25, 2015, an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 occurred in Nepal, destroying multi-story buildings in Kathmandu and causing landslides and avalanches in the mountains.
Almost 9 thousand people died and more than 22 thousand were injured.
The disaster also left hundreds of thousands of people homeless. More than seven years after the earthquake, reconstruction work has still not been completed. (EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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