Earthquake update: One killed, four houses damaged


A woman has died in the Bajura earthquake.

District Police Office Bajura informed that Jamuna Rokaya around 35 years, a woman of Gaumul Rural Municipality-2, was killed when a falling stone hit her due to the jolt of the earthquake while she was cutting grass in the nearby forest of her house.

District Police Office Bajura Chief Surya Bahadur Thapa said that four houses along with Badimalika Municipality – 7’s Hari Chandra Upadhyaya, ward 9’s Dhan Bahadur BK and Birjite Chandara’s houses have been damaged.

He added that most of the old houses’ roofs and the Budhi Nanda Municipality building have been partially damaged.

Locals have said that in the Bajura district faced huge damage in various places and more than 40 cattle have been killed.

Source : TRN,