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Second Quake Hits Nepal

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Second Quake Hits Nepal

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12:47 12 May 2015


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Nepal has been hit with a second earth quake within a month.

Witnesses say many people have been injured and several killed.

Rose Foley from Unicef in Kathmandu has described another day of terror for the country:

Today's tremor comes just two weeks after more than 8,000 people were killed in a massive quake that struck the region.

The latest quake happened at lunch, local time and measured 7.3 in magnitude.

It hit near Mount Everest, at a shallow depth of about 15 kilometers.

These people are in the capital..

According to Nepal's information minister, at least 16 people have been killed and 846 injured, with the tremor felt in northern India and Bangladesh.


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