Nepal earthquake kills six, rattles New Delhi - Reuters

KATHMANDU, Nov 9 (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 successful Nepal aboriginal connected Wednesday killed 4 children and 2 adults, earnestly injured 5 others arsenic respective houses collapsed successful the occidental territory of Doti, and shook New Delhi successful neighbouring India.

Local media showed mud and ceramic houses destroyed by the quake successful the Himalayan state and rescuers digging done the rubble to look for survivors. At slightest 2 radical are reported missing, said Nepali service spokesperson Narayan Silwal.

Women successful the district, astir 430 km (270 miles) westbound of the capital, Kathmandu, were shown sitting successful the unfastened with babies wrapped successful blankets to shield them from the cold. Volunteers rescued a cattle trapped nether the debris.

Ram Upadhyay, president of the Purbi Chowki agrarian municipality successful Doti, said helium was successful a adjacent colony erstwhile the quake struck astatine 2.12 americium Nepal clip (2027 GMT).

"It shook terribly and I rushed retired immediately. Now we are collecting details including the dormant bodies," helium said.

Five radical were earnestly injured arsenic 8 houses collapsed, said Bhola Bhatta, Doti's lawman superintendent of police.

Nepal is inactive rebuilding aft 2 large earthquakes successful 2015 killed astir 9,000 people, destroyed full towns and centuries-old temples and caused a $6 cardinal stroke to the economy.

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, who faces re-election aboriginal this month, offered condolences to the families of the victims. "I person instructed the applicable agencies to put contiguous and due attraction of the injured and the victims."

A crushed rescue squad of the service has been rushed to the site, said spokesperson Silwal, and 2 helicopters were connected standby successful adjacent Surkhet and Nepalgunj towns.

Kalpana Shrestha, a elder bureaucrat of Doti district, said details were being collected from villages adjacent the epicentre and that 1 kid was among those rescued from nether the debris.

Nepal's seismological centre acceptable the earthquake astatine a magnitude of 6.6. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) had pegged the earthquake astatine a magnitude of 5.6.

The quake was centred astir 158 km (100 miles) northeast of Pilibhit, a populous metropolis successful the neighbouring Indian authorities of Uttar Pradesh, and occurred astatine a extent of 10 km, EMSC added. There were nary reports of harm connected the Indian side, though the quake woke up galore residents of the superior New Delhi.

Reporting by Gopal Sharma successful Kathmandu and Mrinmay Dey successful Bengaluru; Writing by Shivam Patel; Editing by Gerry Doyle and Lincoln Feast

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