Twenty-three houses were completely damaged by an earthquake at Bichchhya of Himali Rural Municipality-2 in the district last night. An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale with its epicenter at Dahakot, Gaumul Rural Municipality struck the district at 1.30 am last night.
Chief Administrative Officer of Himali rural municipality, Raj Bahadur Bhandari, said 23 houses were damaged by the tremor in Bichchhya.
Chief District Officer Pushkar Khadka said that the district administration is collecting the information on the damage caused by the earthquake in coordination with the Chief Administrative Officer and the rural municipality ward chairperson.
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