India-Nepal quake toll rises to110
Military helicopters yesterday reached remote villages in northeast India cut off for four days by a strong earthquake which killed at least 110 people across four countries.
Terrified local people reported how their houses were destroyed by boulders careering down the mountainside, flattening walls and crushing people inside when the 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck on Sunday evening.
Landslides and rockfalls have blocked all roads into the north of Sikkim, leaving rescue teams battling to evacuate the injured by air and relief organisers still uncertain about the scale of the destruction.
In Gangtok, the state capital of Sikkim, officials said the toll had risen to 78 by Thursday morning. Another 18 people died in neighbouring Indian states, seven people in Chinese Tibet, six in Nepal and one in Bhutan.
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