Quake kills 74 in Kyrgystan, 30 in Tibet

BISHKEK (AFP) - Rescuers toiled on Monday in a remote mountain village close to Kyrgyzstan’s border with China searching for survivors of a powerful earthquake that killed at least 74 people, 41 of them children.

Hours later, a powerful tremor also struck a sparsely populated area of China’s Himalayan region of Tibet, killing at least 30 people, Chinese state media reported.

The Kyrgyz quake, which measured 6.6 according to the US Geological Survey and was felt hundreds of kilometres around, razed the village of Nura, located in the Tian Shan mountains at an altitude of 2,000 metres, said Kyrgyzstan’s emergency situations minister, Kamchybek Tashiyev.