At least six people were killed and several others injured after an earthquake struck western Nepal on Wednesday, according to the police.
The quake occurred at about 2:12 a.m. Nepal time (8:27 p.m. UTC) on Wednesday, with its epicenter located close to a national park in the sparsely populated Doti district, 430 kilometers (267 miles) west of Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu.
The U.S. Geological Survey measured the quake as having a magnitude of 5.6 at a depth of about 15.7 kilometers (9.8 miles), while Nepal’s National Seismological Centre recorded a magnitude of 6.6, The Kathmandu Post reported.
Bhola Bhatta, deputy superintendent of police in Doti, said that four children—an 8-year-old boy, a 13-year-old girl, and two 14-year-old girls—were among those killed when several houses collapsed in Purichauki rural municipality….