At least six people have been killed and five others injured by an earthquake measuring 6.6 on the open Richter scale in western Nepal, officials have confirmed.
The National Seismological Center of Nepal has indicated that the earthquake has taken place at 2.12 hours (local time) and has placed its epicenter in Doti, located in the Japtad national park.
The chief of the Doti Police, Bhola Bhatta, indicated that among the dead there are three children aged between eight and fourteen years, before detailing that all of them are residents of the municipality of Purichauki.
He said that all the victims died after being crushed by the debris of one of the houses that collapsed in the earthquake, which was also felt in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, and in areas of northern India, according to the newspaper ‘The Kathmandu Post’.
For his part, the Prime Minister of Nepal, Sher Bahadur Deuba, has conveyed in a message on his account on the social network Twitter «his deepest condolences» to the families of the victims and has ordered the «relevant agencies» to «give immediate and appropriate treatment to the injured and victims in the relief and rescue operations in the affected areas».
