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| Audi-Tek | September 18 2011, 07:51 PM Post #1 |
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Several killed as earthquake hits India, Nepal![]() An eight-year-old child was among three killed after the wall of the British embassy in Nepal collapsed At least seven people have been killed in Nepal and northern parts of India after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck the region. Five people died in Nepal, including three crushed when a wall of the British embassy compound collapsed in the capital, Kathmandu. At least two people died in the states of Sikkim and Bihar, officials said. Several minor earthquakes have hit the region this year, but none have caused major damage. In Kathmandu, 270km (170 miles) west of the epicentre, buildings were evacuated and traffic came to a standstill. Power cuts "Four people were injured when a wall collapsed after the quake. All of them were rushed to hospital but three died during treatment," Kedar Rijal, the chief of Kathmandu police, told Reuters news agency. Those dead included a motorcyclist and his eight-year-old child who were struck as they rode past, police said. Telephone lines were knocked out across Sikkim state, while power cuts plunged Gangtok, the capital, into darkness shortly after the quake hit. Rescuers were searching for those who may be trapped under fallen buildings in the city, which has a population of 50,000, state police chief Jasbir Singh said. "We have sounded a high alert. Police are on the streets in Gangtok and other major towns," he told the Associated Press news agency. Indian Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth said rescue teams were being flown in to Sikkim from neighbouring states following an emergency meeting called by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The quake was also felt in Bangladesh and Bhutan. |
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| Audi-Tek | September 18 2011, 07:55 PM Post #2 |
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Up Date...... New Delhi: At least twelve people have been killed - seven in India and five in Nepal - after an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale shook Sikkim this evening. Strong tremors were also felt in parts of North and East India and parts of Bangladesh and Nepal, causing widespread panic. The epicentre of the quake is said to be just 64 kilometres North-West of Gangtok Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/earthquake-in-sikkim-12-dead-strong-tremors-in-north-and-east-india-134537&cp |
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| Audi-Tek | September 19 2011, 03:08 PM Post #3 |
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Rescuers in choppers reach Himalaya quake villages ![]() Nepalese women remove bricks of the damaged house to make way for pedestrians after an earthquake of magnitude 6.9 shook northeastern India on Sunday night, in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. Rescue workers used shovels and their bare hands to pull bodies from the debris of collapsed buildings Monday, as the death toll from an earthquake that hit northeast India, Nepal and Tibet rises. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) GANGTOK, India (AP) -- Rescue workers in helicopters and earth movers raced Monday to reach Indian villages cut off by mudslides after a powerful earthquake killed 53 people and damaged more than 100,000 homes in the remote Himalayan region, officials said. Three emergency workers were killed in the frantic, rain-soaked rescue effort. More than 6,000 troops worked to clear concrete slabs, bricks and mud to rescue scores of people trapped under houses that collapsed when the 6.9-magnitude quake struck the mountainous region Sunday evening. Nine helicopters dropped food to villages, airlifted a medical team, evacuated the injured and conducted damage assessments, Indian Home Secretary R.K. Singh said. Heavy construction equipment was used to clear some of the blocked roads, he said. "The rescue and relief operations are in full swing though they were hampered ... by poor weather," he said. At least 32 people died and 100 others were injured in the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim, where the quake was centered near India's border with Nepal, Singh said. At least 10 of those killed worked for the same hydroelectric project, he said. It was not immediately clear how they died. Seven other people were killed the neighboring Indian states of Bihar and West Bengal, he said. Seven people died in Nepal, and China's official Xinhua News Agency reported seven deaths in Tibet. Most of the deaths occurred when houses, already weakened from recent monsoon rains, collapsed due to the force of the quake. While rescue workers managed to reach many cutoff villages, Singh said it was still unclear what the final toll might be. "There may still be villages where people are trapped under collapsed houses that we have not been able to reach," he said. By midday Monday, workers had managed to clear landslides from one lane of the main highway connecting Sikkim, and an initial convoy of 75 paramilitary soldiers had started moving toward Mangan, the village closest to the quake's epicenter, officials said. They still had not arrived Monday evening. In Gangtok, Sikkim's capital, police cordoned off the office of the state's top elected official after the building was severely damaged in the quake, police Chief Jasbir Singh said. Nepal's government said seven people died there, including two men and a child who were killed when a brick wall toppled outside the British Embassy in the capital, Katmandu. Nearly 70 people were injured, some of them seriously, and were in hospitals across Nepal. TV broadcasters showed footage of buildings buckled, sidewalks cracked and two major roads collapsed in Gangtok, 42 miles (68 kilometers) southeast of the quake's epicenter. The Indo-Tibetan Border Police said two of its buildings collapsed in Gangtok. In India's West Bengal state, utility workers toiled through the night to restore power to a large swathe of the state which plunged into darkness after power lines were snapped by the quake. The quake, which was followed by several aftershocks, was felt as far away as the Indian capital. It caused some houses in China's Himalayan region of Tibet to collapse and disrupted a border county's telecommunications services, Xinhua said. The region has been hit by major earthquakes in the past, including in 1950 and 1897. Associated Press writers Wasbir Hussain in Gauhati, Binaj Gurubacharya in Katmandu, Nepal, Julhas Alam in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Gillian Wong in Beijing contributed to this report. |
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