(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck Nepal early Wednesday,
killing at least six people, destroying multiple houses in the
western district of Doti and shaking the Indian capital New Delhi,
officials said, reports citing .
Five other people were seriously injured as eight houses
collapsed, said Bhola Bhatta, deputy superintendent of police in
Doti, confirming an earlier figure shared by home ministry official
Tulsi Rijal. The injured had been rushed to a local hospital,
police said.
'Expressing my heartfelt condolences to the families of those
who died in the earthquake,' Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba
wrote on Twitter. 'I have instructed the relevant agencies to
arrange immediate and proper treatment of the injured and the
victims.'
Narayan Silwal, a spokesman for the Nepali army, said a ground
rescue team has been rushed to the site and two helicopters were on
stand by in nearby Surkhet and Nepalgunj towns.
Kalpana Shrestha, a senior bureaucrat of Doti district, said
details were being collected from villages near the epicentre and
that one child was among those rescued from under the debris.
Nepal's seismological centre set the earthquake at a magnitude
of 6.6. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) had
pegged the earthquake at a magnitude of 5.6.
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