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Kyrgyz earthquake death toll rises to 75

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The death toll following an earthquake that hit southern Kyrgyzstan over the weekend has risen to 75 after a nine-year-old girl died in a local hospital on Wednesday, the country's emergencies minister said.
BISHKEK, October 8 (RIA Novosti) - The death toll following an earthquake that hit southern Kyrgyzstan over the weekend has risen to 75 after a nine-year-old girl died in a local hospital on Wednesday, the country's emergencies minister said.

The earthquake, measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale, struck near the former Soviet republic's densely populated border area with China on Sunday in the southern province of Osh.

Another 150 people were injured, some 300 buildings were destroyed and roads and power lines were damaged.

A total of 38 people, including seven children, have been evacuated from the worst-hit areas.

"We have verified the identities of all the dead and injured. There are no missing persons according to our lists," Kamchybek Tashyev said.

He said the earthquake completely destroyed the high-altitude village of Nura on Kyrgyzstan's border with China. The area was the epicenter of the earthquake. The village had a population of around 1,000 people.

Local authorities are planning to rebuild the village by next spring.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has sent his condolences to his Kyrgyz counterpart Kurmanbek Bakiyev and ordered Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry to send humanitarian aid to Kyrgyzstan.

Kyrgyzstan was hit by a series of strong quakes in January and in December 2007. Although a number of buildings were destroyed in the quakes, which reached 6.5 on the Richter scale, no one was killed.

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