November 4, 2023
Rescuers race to find survivors of Nepal earthquake, 157 dead
KATHMANDU: Rescue workers in Nepal began digging with their bare hands through the rubble of collapsed houses on Saturday, looking for survivors after the country’s worst earthquake in eight years killed 157 people and shook buildings as far away as New Delhi. The earthquake struck Jajarkot district in the Himalayan nation’s west at 11:47 p.m. (1802 GMT) on Friday, with a magnitude of 6.4, according to Nepal’s National Seismological Center. The German Geoscience Research Center measured it at 5.7 and the US Geological Survey at 5.6. Officials fear the death toll could rise as first responders arrived in the hilly


