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Three tremors in the last 24 hours triggered landslides in various parts of the Doti district, killing at least six people and injuring several others, according to news agency ANI. At around 2 a.m., strong tremors were felt in Delhi and the NCR region, jolting people awake. The National Seismological Centre of Nepal confirmed three tremors in Nepal in the last 24 hours, including two earthquakes and an aftershock.
“The third strong jolt measuring 6.6 magnitude which struck at around 2.12am on Wednesday resulted in the loss of three lives after a house collapsed. The deaths are reported from Gairagaun,” Ram Prasad Upadhyay, chairman of Purbichauki village council-03 of Doti district told ANI.
Dozens of houses have been damaged in the district, reports said.
At around 8.52 p.m., Nepal experienced its first earthquake of magnitude 4.9. At around 1.57 a.m., a second earthquake of 6.3 magnitude struck Nepal, causing strong tremors in Delhi, Ghaziabad, Noida, Gurugram, and even Lucknow. The second earthquake struck 90 kilometers east-southeast of Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand.
According to a Delhi Disaster Management Authority official, no calls about earthquake-related damage have been received at the emergency operation center.
