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Earthquake: China and Bangladesh also hit, 15 killed
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At least 12 people, including an 83-year-old woman, were on Saturday killed in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region after a powerful earthquake of 7.9 magnitude jolted neighbouring Nepal.
At least 12 people, including an 83-year-old woman, were on Saturday killed in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region after a powerful earthquake of 7.9 magnitude jolted neighbouring Nepal.
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The earthquake killed 12 people and seriously injured many others in Tibet, state-run Xinhua news agency cited local authorities as saying.
The woman was killed after her house collapsed in Nyelam County in Shigatse City. The quake was felt in the cities of Lhasa and Shigatse.
Similarly, at least three people, including two women, were killed and 60 others injured when hundreds rushed out of their workplaces and houses in panic after the Nepal earthquake.
Meanwhile, a strong 5.9-magnitude earthquake rattled New Zealand, seismologists said, panicking shoppers but prompting no reports of any major damage. The quake hit at 3:36 pm (0336 GMT) with its epicentre about 66 kilometres (41 miles) from the South Island town of Kaikoura at a depth of 55 kilometres.
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