More than a thousand people have been injured and many dozens killed in

Nepal after the poor mountain nation was hit by a second strong earthquake,
just weeks after the disaster that killed more than 8,000 people and destroyed
hundreds of thousands of homes.

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A second powerful earthquake to hit Nepal has killed 42 people and injured
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The US Geological Survey said the second quake had a magnitude of 7.3 and
struck 42 miles (68km) west of the town of Namche Bazaar, close to Mount
Everest. It was followed closely by at least six strong aftershocks. Shockwaves
were felt as far away as the Indian capital, Delhi, and Dhaka, the capital of
Bangladesh.

The district of Sindhupalchok, one of the worst-hit areas in last months

earthquake, suffered significant damage. Krishna Gyawali, the most senior local
bureaucrat, said eight people had been killed in the district and more than 100
injured.

Kathmandu buildings are evacuated as a second earthquake hits Nepal

Officials gave conflicting figures for casualties as reports came in from remote
rural areas which appeared to have been worst hit.

Nepals home ministry said at least 42 people had been killed and 1,117 injured
in the latest earthquake. The number of deaths and injuries was expected to
rise, Gyawali told the Guardian, because dozens of houses collapsed.

Witnesses reported widespread damage in Sindhupalchok with roads cut by

high stones and often cracked. Security officials were working to open the
highways to the district last night.

Nineteen deaths were reported in remote Dolakha province closer to the

highest mountains in the world and the border with Tibet, Kamal Singh Bam,
the national police spokesman said. Dolakha appears the worst hit, he told
the Guardian.

The police chief of the district said dozens more were injured, many seriously.

With dozens of helicopters from India, China and the US based in Nepal a
stark contrast to last month relief operations were launched immediately.
Nepalese and Indian army helicopters had reached Dolakha within hours of the
earthquake and begun ferrying wounded from the district headquarters to
Kathmandu.

One recce helicopter had gone and they saw landslides. They did a casualty
evacuation from one village, Sitanshu Kar, spokesman for the Indian ministry
of defence, said.

There were also concerns over a large glacial lake in northern Dolakha district
called Tso Rolpa which is held back by a fragile natural dam and threatens the
lives of thousands of villagers.

The epicentre was much closer to Everest base camp than that of the 25 April
quake. The earlier quake triggered a massive avalanche that killed 18 climbers
and support staff waiting to ascend the worlds tallest peak. Mountaineering
companies have called off their spring expeditions.

Two people were killed in India, according to state officials one in Bihar state
and one in Uttar Pradesh. Residents in the Indian town of Siliguri, near the
border with Nepal, said chunks of concrete fell off one or two buildings. The
earth also shook strongly across the Nepalese border in Tibets Jilong and
Zhangmu regions.

Nepalese girls stay with their belongings on an open ground after another
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Nepalese girls stay with their belongings on open ground after another
earthquake in Kathmandu. Photograph: Mast Irham/EPA
Tuesdays quake came from a depth of 11.5 miles, deeper than the 9.3 miles of
the quake on 25 April. Deeper earthquakes tend to cause less damage at the
surface. The 7.3 magnitude means it was about a fifth as strong as Aprils 7.8
quake.

In Lamosangu in Sindhupalchok witnesses described people screaming and

weeping as if the world was ending.

Krishna Lama and his five-year-old daughter ran from their camp. He said: I
could hardly hold my child it was shaking so much. My parents died in
landslides last year. Now it seems it is our turn.

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In Gorkha district, the epicentre of the earthquake last month, there were
reports of limited damage. Jen Hardy, of Catholic Relief Services, who are
distributing aid to remote villages in the district, said she saw two houses that
had been badly damaged in the previous quake fall down.

We are on a ridge and so got shaken pretty badly. It was quite strong and
there was a lot of crying. People are very shaky. The mobile network is down
and everyone is trying to reach loved ones. No one is staying anywhere near a
building, Hardy said.

All over the areas affected by the two quakes people were returning to the
makeshift camps in parks, parade grounds and even roundabouts that had
been set up last month but dismantled in recent days as confidence returned.

The latest disaster comes amid a humanitarian emergency in Nepal, with aid
yet to reach many remote parts of the Himalayan nation after roads were
wrecked by landslides. At least half a million Nepalese are already without
homes and living in makeshift camps or on the ruins of their houses.

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Rescue team officials and a sniffer dog search for survivors at a collapsed
house in Kathmandu. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images
The United Nations last week said it had received just $22m (14m) of the
$415m it had appealed for as it called for aid contributions to be dramatically
ramped up. There have been rows over the aid that has already been sent,
with western officials accusing the Nepalese government of trying to centralise
its distribution, hampering efforts to reach those most in need.

The search for survivors of the first quake who were still trapped in remote
areas such as the Langtang valley was continuing as late as last week, with
whole villages in that part of the country which is popular with trekkers
wiped out in last months quake and aftershocks.

More than three-quarters of the buildings in Kathmandu have already been

judged uninhabitable or unsafe without major repairs, according to a survey
carried out at the beginning of May.