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Over 100 killed in quakes

AFP, Beijing/ Bishkek
More than 100 people were killed in two separate earthquakes in China's Himalayan region of Tibet and neighbouring Kyrgyzstan yesterday.
Rescuers raced to reach a remote village in Kyrgyzstan on Monday after a strong earthquake killed at least 72 people in a moun-•tainous area near the border with China, officials said.
The quake late Sunday, which measured magnitude 6.6 on the
Richter scale according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), razed the village of Nura in the isolated Alaisky district, high in the Tian Shan mountain range.
"Right now the number of dead is 72." Deputy Emergency Situations Minister Turatbek Dzhunuchaliyev said in a press conference.
He added that more than 60 people needed urgent hospitalisation and 128 houses had been ruined in the quake, which was felt
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as far away as the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, about 400km away.
The second earthquake struck China's Himalayan region ofTibet on Monday killing at least 30 people, state media reported, citing local government sources.
The earthquake struck at 4 JO pm (0830 GMT) in a sparsely populated area about 84km west of the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, the US Geological Survey said.
US seismologists initially put the magnitude of the quake at 6.6, but later revised that down to 63.
The tremor in Tibet came after a 6.6-magnitude quake struck near China's border with Kyrgyzstan, killing at least 72 people. Shortly thereafter, another strong earthquake rattled China'sfarnorthwest
Emergency officials said earlier that more than 100 people had been injured, mostly in Nura, a village of some 960 residents close to the point where the borders of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and China intersect
"The picture we saw was frightening. The village of Nura is fully destroyed, 100 percent," Emergency Situations Minister Kamchybek Tashiyevsaid.
"These were dilapidated houses, made of clay and straw, so they were totally destroyed,” Kanatbek Abdrakhmatov, head of the Institute ofSeismology in Bishkek, toldAFR
Victims were being ferried by helicopter from Nura to the main regional city of Osh, 220 kilometres away.
Several aftershocks followed in Tibet, with one measuring5.4.
Xinhua, quoting local government officials, said many houses in Damxung county - home to about 42,000 people -- near the quake's epicentre had collapsed, and that "more people were still buried in debris".
Soldiers and medical teams were dispatched to the area, where roads and communications had been cut off, the report said.
More deaths were reported in a neighbouring county, Xinhua said, adding that an exact figure was not available.
The agency quoted ZhU Quan, director or the Tibetan seismological department, as saying authorities were still trying to determine the exact number orcasualties.
The quake was felt strongly in Lhasa, Xinhua said, citing local sources.
"I was shaken for a few seconds and lamps in the office swayed. Then everything returned to normal," the report quoted one of its own Lhasabased reporters as saying.
"Judging from how I felt, the tremor would not damage the cultural relics in Lhasa... There is no panic in the streets now. Shops remain open."