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Six killed as quake jolts Northeast
A powerful earthquake struck northeast India and Bangladesh on Monday, killing at least 11 people and injuring nearly 200, with efforts to reach remote areas where people may be trapped hampered by severed power lines and telecommunication links.
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The pre-dawn quake killed six people in India and five in neighboring Bangladesh, officials said, while shockwaves were felt in the Himalayan nation of Nepal and Myanmar.
Police and hospitals in Imphal said the death toll had reached six with 100 people injured, 33 of them seriously. Officials in Bangladesh said as well as the five people who died of heart attacks as they fled buildings, about 90 people were injured.
The government said two teams from the National Disaster Response Force had arrived to help with the rescue.
“The rescue operations are about to start on a war footing,” Junior Home Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju told Reuters. Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted that he was in touch with authorities in the northeast.
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