A lady has been pulled alive from the rubble after an earthquake hit Nepal - miraculously strolling away from a destroyed constructing.
At least 157 folks had been killed when the earthquake struck the west of the country late on Friday night time.
The variety of useless is predicted to rise, with helicopters and troops drafted in to assist discover survivors.
A video captures one of many fortunate ones: a girl dragged from the dusty rubble by a crew of rescuers working by torchlight.
She holds a beam as somebody makes use of a device to hack on the particles round her. If the beam created an area for her head when the constructing collapsed, it might have saved her life.
There is shouting as rescuers grip the girl underneath the arms and pull her free, earlier than she climbs away with out obvious severe harm.
Witnesses mentioned the earthquake triggered homes to break down and reduce communications to many villages.
The earthquake occurred at 11:47pm (6.02pm within the UK) within the Jajarkot district of Karnali province - 310 miles west of the capital Kathmandu.
Nepal's National Seismological Centre mentioned the magnitude was 6.4, whereas the US Geological Survey (USGS) put it at 5.6.
"Houses have collapsed. People rushed out of their homes. I am out in the crowd of terrified residents. We are trying to find details of damages," mentioned a police official.
Rescuers labored in a single day to drag injured folks from the rubble. However, landslides in some areas blocked roads and made entry troublesome.
Medical personnel and provides had been being flown in by helicopter - with Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal becoming a member of one flight.
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Some of the wounded had been being handled on the the regional hospital within the metropolis of Nepalgunj.
"I was fast asleep when all of a sudden it started shaking violently. I tried to run but the whole house collapsed. I tried escaping but half my body got buried in the debris," mentioned Bimal Kumar Karki, one of many first two folks to be dropped at the hospital.
"I screamed, but every one of my neighbours were in the same situation and screaming for help. It took nearly half an hour to an hour before rescuers found me."
The loss of life toll included 105 folks killed in Jajarkot and 52 in neighbouring Rukum West district, each in Karnali province, officers mentioned.
"The number of injured could be in the hundreds and the deaths could go up as well," Jajarkot district official HarishChandra Sharma informed Reuters.
Although the quake's magnitude was not extreme, the harm and the loss of life toll would doubtless be excessive as a result of poor high quality of building within the space and that it struck whereas folks slept, officers mentioned.
Witnesses mentioned the tremors had been felt as distant as Kathmandu and New Delhi in India.
The quake occurred at a depth of 11.1 miles (17.9km), in response to the USGS.
Earthquakes are frequent in Nepal - a 7.8-magnitude quake in 2015 killed about 9,000 folks and broken about 1,000,000 constructions.
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