Earthquake in northern India, killing 9 people

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Gu Van Ha ti least 9 people were killed and many others were injured Monday when the 6.7 earthquake magnitude struck northeast India by making panicked residents fled to the streets even remotely Hundreds of kilometers away in Bangladesh as well.

The Indian government said that 6 people were killed in India, but the 3 others were killed in Bangladesh after disease brain stroke and heart attack after an earthquake, the earth from the early morning.

Anurag Gupta of India's National Disaster Management Authority, said several buildings were damaged in the city of Imphal State of Manipur, where the earthquake is the central point.

He told AFP: 6 people were confirmed dead and 70 others were injured in the city of Imphal. A 6-storey building in the capital was partially damaged and some small buildings had cracks.



6-story tall buildings in the capital are causing damage and some minor construction cracked.

However, an official at a hospital in one of several major hospitals, said that more than 70 people were sent Hospital since the quake, with a head injury and a broken arm broken leg.

Residents in the capital Imphal Deepak Shijagurumayum that his house was destroyed, described the place as much chaos after the quake struck .

Most of the buildings in the city of Imphal was damaged by the earthquake in the morning on Monday.
Most of the buildings in the city of Imphal was damaged by the earthquake in the morning on Monday. AFP
Shijagurumayum told AFP by telephone from the city: almost everyone was sleeping when the earthquake attacks and have been thrown out of their iron beds.

'A lot of people crying and praying in the streets and in the middle of the field. Hundreds of people outside the home, many out of fear.

Observations on America's geography, said the quake struck at 4 hours and 35 minutes Sunday morning, a distance of 29 km. northwest of the capital, Imphal.

Agence India (PTI) said that many buildings collapsed and electricity was cut off in many parts of the state of Manipur, the border with Myanmar, and has a history of separatist unrest for a long time.

Victims, about 60 people are being treated for their injuries in hospitals in Bangladesh, where the earthquake causing panic on the streets of many cities.

Bangladeshi man, 23, died of a stroke in the brain when he ran out of his house, while two people Other farmers and other university officials, died of a heart attack.

Among the injured are university students who crawled from the mezzanine floor 4 and is in a critical condition.

There are many similar places in the northeastern Indian city of Guwahati, the state's main commercial mineral-rich Assam An AFP correspondent said the group in a state of fear.

7 states in northeastern India, is in an area that always has frequent seismic phenomena. PSA

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