Authorities said the death toll that hit just before midnight on Friday, Nepal time, was expected to rise, noting that communications were cut off in many places.
Helicopters and ground troops rushed to help people hurt in a strong earthquake that shook north-western Nepal districts, killing at least 128 people and injuring dozens more, officials said Saturday.
As day broke, rescue helicopters flew into the region to help out and security forces on the ground were digging out the injured and dead from the rubble, Nepal police spokesman Kuber Kadayat said. Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal flew in on a helicopter with a team of doctors. Dahal led an armed communist revolt in 1996-2006 that began from the districts that were hit by the quake.
At least 36 people were killed and 85 injured in neighbouring Rukum district, where numerous houses collapsed.
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