At least 140 people were killed and several others injured as a powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake jolted Nepal just before midnight on Friday.
The terrible tremor destroyed hundreds of houses in the Himalayan country's remote mountainous region in the most devastating tremor since 2015, reports NDTV.
According to the National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre, the earthquake with an epicentre in Jajarkot district, about 500km west of Kathmandu, was recorded at 11:47 pm.
It is the most devastating earthquake in the country since the 2015 earthquake that killed around 9,000 people in the country and injured more than 22,000 people.
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