Nepal’s latest earthquake: Dozens killed; fears over remote areas
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KATHMANDU, NEPAL - MAY 12: Nepalese Army work to try to dig up a little boy believed to be in the rubble of a house that collapsed following a second major earthquake May 12, 2015 in Kathmandu, Nepal. A 7.3 magnitude earthquake has struck in Nepal only two weeks after more than 8,000 people were killed in a devastating earthquake. The latest quake has struck near Mt Everest near the town of Namche Bazar. Tremors have been felt as far away as Bangladesh and Delhi. (Photo by Jonas Gratzer/Getty Images)
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• Aftershocks continued predawn Wednesday in Nepal. A CNN team there felt one such big one at 2 a.m. local time that shook buildings and terrified survivors, many of whom were sleeping outside or ran from their homes.
Nepali Home Ministry spokesman Laxmi Prasad Dhakal said Wednesday morning that at least 76 people in his country had been killed. The number of injured stood at 1,986, he said. Dozens of people were rescued alive from rubble, according to officials.
Another 17 people were reported dead from the quake in India, and one person in China.
Nepal was already struggling to deal with the aftermath of the devastating magnitude-7.8 earthquake that struck the Himalayan nation on April 25, killing more than 8,000 people and flattening entire villages.
‘The land has cracked open’
This week’s quake brought buildings damaged by the earlier disaster crashing to the ground and released a new surge of panic among shell-shocked Nepalis.
The epicenter was in a rugged area of the district of Dolakha, east of the capital, Kathmandu.
“The land has cracked open in many places, many people don’t even have a spot to put their tents,” said Krishna Siwakoti, a farmer who lives near the epicenter.
“The situation is dire. We are isolated,” he told CNN, saying the quake had set off landslides “all around us.”
Heaping destruction upon devastation
Tuesday’s quake struck at the same depth as the April temblor, but it was several times weaker and centered roughly 140 kilometers (85 miles) farther east.
It still managed to wreak fresh havoc in already badly damaged areas.
In Sindupalchowk, a poor district that suffered the heaviest human toll in the April disaster, it set off new landslides. Anil Thapa, a journalist there, reported that multiple houses had fallen.
In Dolakha, Siwakoti said that the April quake brought down about half the 1,400 houses in his area. And then, Tuesday’s temblor flattened most of the rest, leaving just 5% of the houses habitable, he said.
Search for missing U.S. helicopter
Officials said they were still trying to reach some rural areas of Sindupalchowk and Dolakha where they feared the destruction could be severe.
Dolakha is also the district where a U.S. military helicopter with six U.S. Marines and two Nepalis aboard is believed to have gone missing on Tuesday evening.
Aerial and ground searches were underway for the helicopter, which had been helping with earthquake relief efforts when it lost contact.
In Kathmandu, where temples and apartment buildings collapsed in April, the new quake caused more damage to more structures and sent many terrified residents flooding out into the streets.
Once again, encampments of tents sprung up in open areas around the city as people opted to sleep outside rather than risk more tremors from continuing aftershocks. Others, their homes destroyed, had no choice.
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People collect bricks from the ruins of buildings in Bhaktapur, Nepal, on Friday, May 15. The region was struck with a magnitude-7.3 earthquake on Tuesday, May 12, just 17 days after a magnitude-7.8 quake left thousands dead.
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Members of the Nepalese Army search for a U.S. Marine helicopter in Nepal's Dolakha District on Thursday, May 14. The chopper went missing with six U.S. Marines and two Nepali service members on board. Three bodies were found in the helicopter's wreckage on Friday, Nepal's defense secretary said.
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Nepali rescue team members work at a collapsed building in Kathmandu on May 14.
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Debris from a landslide blocks a road in the Dolakha district in Nepal on May 14.
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A man carries a jug of water in Bhaktapur, Nepal, on May 14.
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A man looks at massive damage in Chautara, Nepal, on Wednesday, May 13.
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A helicopter waits to evacuate an injured man at a Nepali army base near Chautara on May 13.
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A man carries his child to a camp for displaced people in Chautara on May 13.
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A family sleeps in an open space sheltered by plastic sheets in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Tuesday, May 12.
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People take shelter inside a car instead of being indoors in Kathamandu on May 12.
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A rescue worker from Mexico stands at the site of a collapsed building in Kathmandu on May 12.
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People look through the debris of buildings in Kathmandu on May 12.
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An injured person is carried in Kathmandu on May 12.
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An injured man rests at a hospital in Kathmandu on May 12.
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A boy sleeps in his father's lap after they moved to an open area in the Tundikhel area of Kathmandu on May 12.
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A car is smashed under the weight of a collapsed building in Kathmandu on May 12.
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A rescue worker from the U.S. Agency for International Development looks for survivors in Kathmandu along with a sniffer dog on May 12.
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People are carried out of a hospital building in Kathmandu on May 12.
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People gather in an open space in Kathmandu on May 12.
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A woman tries to sit up at a hospital in Kathmandu on May 12.
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A woman rests at a makeshift hospital in Kathmandu on May 12.
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Rescue teams search for survivors in Kathmandu on May 12.
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Debris is cleared from the site of a collapsed building in Kathmandu on May 12.
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Patients lie on stretchers in an open area after being carried out of a hospital building on May 12.
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People in Kathmandu hurry along a street after the quake struck on May 12.
CNN’s Sugam Pokharel reported from Kathmandu, and CNN’s Jethro Mullen reported and wrote from Hong Kong. CNN’s Greg Botelho, Sumnima Udas, Will Ripley and Elizabeth Joseph contributed to this report.