Nepal was shaken late on Friday by an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6.
At least 132 people have died in the earthquake that struck the western part of Nepal late on Friday, according to the country’s Ministry of the Interior.
According to the ministry’s spokesperson, 92 people have been killed in Jajarkot district and 40 in Läntinen Rukum district.
According to a representative of the national police, the authorities have calculated that a total of more than a hundred people have been injured in the district area.
Jajarkot and Läntinen Rukum belong to the Karnal province, which, according to a police representative, the remoteness of the districts makes it difficult for the flow of information.
The region was shaken late Friday by an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6.
Photos and videos shared on social media show locals going through the ruins in the dark to pull survivors to safety from the collapsed buildings.
Several earthquakes have struck mountainous Nepal. The strongest of them happened in 2015, when more than 9,000 people died. That earthquake was the strongest in Nepal in more than 80 years.