Nepal Home Ministry raises death toll in latest quake to 36
By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA and KATY DAIGLE, Associated Press
May 12, 2015 6:43 AM CDT
Nepal Home Ministry raises death toll in latest quake to 36
A policeman uses a loudspeaker to direct the public to safer areas after an earthquake hit Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. A major earthquake hit Nepal in a remote region near the Chinese border on Tuesday, less than three weeks after the country was ravaged by another deadly quake. (AP Photo/Bikram...   (Associated Press)

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal's Home Ministry has raised the death toll from the latest quake to at least 36, while saying another 1,117 people had been injured.

The magnitude-7.3 quake hit hardest in remote mountain districts northeast of the capital of Nepal, terrifying a nation already shell-shocked by a more powerful quake on April 25 that killed more than 8,000 and flattened entire villages.

Information was slow to reach the capital after Tuesday's quake, but officials and aid workers said they expected the death toll to almost certainly rise.

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