- 12 May 2015
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In Nepal, as a result of the two earthquakes with a magnitude of 7.3 killed at least 29 people and injured more than 1,000, according to the authorities.
The full extent of the damage is not yet known. From an area close to the epicenter, there are reports of collapsed homes and killed people.
According to seismologists, the epicenter of the earthquake was located 68 kilometers west of the village of Namche Bazaar in the east, near the border with China and mountains Everest. Its center lies at a depth of 18.5 kilometers.
Half an hour later there was another earthquake of magnitude 6,3.
As reported by BBC BBC witnesses, tremors were felt in the Indian capital New Delhi, as well as in Bangladesh.
At the same time those in Afghanistan, near the border with Tajikistan, was the third earthquake, magnitude 4.6. Afghanistan reports of casualties or damage have been reported yet.
Nearly half a million Nepalis left homeless after the earthquake on April 25.
In Gorkha district, the epicenter of the April earthquake, the destruction of the new account. Jane Hardy, from the Catholic charity Catholic Relief Services announced that saw several houses collapsed, affected by the earthquake in April.
The ruins of the capital
In Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, injured considerable damage in the earthquake on 25 April, on Tuesday once again felt the strong tremors.
A lot of people ran into the streets immediately, as soon as an earthquake, at 12:35 local time (7:50 GMT). The second earthquake occurred at 13:00 local time.
Stores in the capital closed. People are trying to find their relatives.
Correspondent BBC BBC is at the time of the earthquake in convoy with humanitarian aid, he wrote in his “Twitter” that the tremors were felt for a long time.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that in some localities of the country collapsed building.
The International Organization for Migration reported that the city Chautara, located to the east of Kathmandu, as collapsed, people are under the rubble. From the rubble already got a few dead bodies.
In the area of Chautara also descended several landslides.
aircraft the Indian Air Force began to evacuate the wounded from the area of Charikot. Helicopters US Marines are working on medical evacuations from the area Remechhap.
aeroprot Kathmandu, Nepal through which receives the lion’s share of humanitarian aid was temporarily closed, however Nepal Times newspaper reported that after a while the airport once again earned.
International assistance
The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Nepal Mahendra Pandey said that the telephone connection is broken in the country.
The police urged the Nepalese people through social networks do not fill the road and stay in the open air.
In Indian districts bordering Nepal, killing four people: one in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in three.
China’s state media reported that one person was killed there because of chtoego car filled up with stones.
As far as we know, in Tibet the Chinese have also been destroyed by the building.
Some international rescue teams were returning home from Nepal, have announced that they are ready to come back to the Himalayas.
Prime -Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking at a ceremony in honor of the return to Israeli rescue workers said that they are ready to return to Nepal in case of necessity.
Dr Wojtek Wilk, the head of the Polish Centre for international aid, said his team of doctors can return to Nepal directly from the airport in Warsaw.
On April 25, Nepal, an earthquake of magnitude 7.9 . According to the Red Cross, the victims of the earthquake was more than 8.4 thousand people, 17,500 more were wounded.
The center of the new earthquake was at a greater depth. Earthquakes are located closer to the surface, such as the April 25 usually cause much greater destruction.
In April, scientists have predicted the possibility of repeated earthquakes in the region.
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