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Earthquake kills at least 72 in Kyrgyzstan
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - A powerful earthquake struck the mountains of Central Asia, destroying a village in Kyrgyzstan and killing at least 72 people, emergency officials said Monday.
The 6.6-magnitude quake near the border between Kyrgyzstan andTajikistan hit the remote village of Nura hard, bringing down dozens of buildings and injuring more than 100 people in addition to the confirmed deaths, Emergency Situations Minister Kamchybek Tashiyev said.
"What we've seen is terrible, the village of Nura is completely destroyed ? 100 percent," Tashiyev said. "There are many injured and we've counted 60 dead so far, all of them local residents."
Later Monday, Health Ministry spokeswoman Yelena Bayalinova said the death toll was 72.
There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties elsewhere.
The 6.6-magnitude temblor was centered in Kyrgyzstan and was followed by a 5.1-magnitude quake, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
In Moscow, Evgeny Rogozhin, a quake expert at the Earth Physics Institute of theRussian Academy of Sciences, said that the quake epicenter was in a valley where the borders of China, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan converge.
Rogozhin said Sunday's initial 6.6 shock was followed by a series of aftershocks, but could not say whether it was linked to a pair of earthquakes that jolted the capital of Chinese-ruled Tibet and surrounding areas Monday, killing 30 people and causing hundreds of houses to collapse.
Earthquakes are common in the mountains of former Soviet Central Asia, adding to the troubles for residents of the impoverished area.
Earthquake kills at least 72 in Kyrgyzstan
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - A powerful earthquake struck the mountains of Central Asia, destroying a village in Kyrgyzstan and killing at least 72 people, emergency officials said Monday.
The 6.6-magnitude quake near the border between Kyrgyzstan andTajikistan hit the remote village of Nura hard, bringing down dozens of buildings and injuring more than 100 people in addition to the confirmed deaths, Emergency Situations Minister Kamchybek Tashiyev said.
"What we've seen is terrible, the village of Nura is completely destroyed ? 100 percent," Tashiyev said. "There are many injured and we've counted 60 dead so far, all of them local residents."
Later Monday, Health Ministry spokeswoman Yelena Bayalinova said the death toll was 72.
There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties elsewhere.
The 6.6-magnitude temblor was centered in Kyrgyzstan and was followed by a 5.1-magnitude quake, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
In Moscow, Evgeny Rogozhin, a quake expert at the Earth Physics Institute of theRussian Academy of Sciences, said that the quake epicenter was in a valley where the borders of China, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan converge.
Rogozhin said Sunday's initial 6.6 shock was followed by a series of aftershocks, but could not say whether it was linked to a pair of earthquakes that jolted the capital of Chinese-ruled Tibet and surrounding areas Monday, killing 30 people and causing hundreds of houses to collapse.
Earthquakes are common in the mountains of former Soviet Central Asia, adding to the troubles for residents of the impoverished area.
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