Firefighters say the family dog made it out safely too.
A woman sits in front of her earthquake damaged house in Jajarkot district, northwestern Nepal, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. KATHMANDU, Nepal — Villagers in the mountains of northwest Nepal cremated the bodies of some who perished in an earthquake that shook the area Friday night.The 13 bodies were carried on Sunday to the banks of the Bheri River and placed on pyres made of stacked wood.
Her house at Chepare village had fallen. She sat around a fire near their fallen home to keep warm with her six family members. The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 and occurred at a depth of 11 miles . Nepal’s National Earthquake Monitoring & Research Center confirmed the epicenter was in Jajarkot, which is about 400 kilometers northeast of the capital, Kathmandu.
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