At least 157 people were killed when the 5.6-magnitude tremor hit late Friday.
JAJARKOT: Search and rescue efforts after an earthquake in Nepal wrapped up today as the focus shifted to providing relief to survivors awaiting food and shelter, officials said 36 hours after the disaster struck.
“We are in touch with all areas and rescue operations have wrapped up,” said provincial police spokesman Gopal Chandra Bhattarai. Harish Chandra Sharma, a Jajarkot district official, said the focus was now on providing relief to the victims. Nepal lies on a major geological faultline where the Indian tectonic plate pushes up into the Eurasian plate, forming the Himalayas, and earthquakes are a regular occurrence.
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