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Strong tremors are rocking Nepal again, and employees of the Russian Embassy to Kathmandu have left the Embassy building, Embassy press attache Azret Botashev said.

“Yes, the tremors have been very strong, our employees have gone outdoors,” he told Interfax.

Botashev said he was trying to find out whether the new quake had hurt any Russians.

Nepal was jolted by another earthquake on May 12.

According to the Geophysical Service of the Siberian branch of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, a 6,9 magnitude quake shook an area 40
kilometers east of Bhaktapur, Nepal. The United States Geological Survey agency said the quake measured 7,4 on the Richter scale and had
its epicenter northeast of the capital city, Kathmandu, not far from
Mount Everest.

The Geophysical Service of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy
of Sciences said that quake was ‘devastating’ in its epicenter.

The Western press reported tremors rocking the Indian capital city of New Delhi and a number of Indian states in the north.

A devastating quake in Nepal on April 25 took at least 8,000 lives.