In Tibet, a devastating earthquake kills at least 95 people

This is the critical moment in the race against time to find survivors. The human toll this Tuesday, January 7, at the end of the morning, rose to 95 dead and 130 injured, following the 7.1 magnitude earthquake which struck the region of Shigatse, the second largest city in Tibet, reports Chinese state channel in English CGTN.

“The epicenter is high on the Tibetan plateau near the Himalayan border with Nepal, about 80 kilometers north of Mount Everest.”completes the site Keji Ribao (the “Chinese Science and Technology Daily”).

Surveillance camera images from a supermarket in Shigatse, broadcast by the official agency Xinhua, show the moment the earthquake hit, with customers running outside as goods fall from shaking shelves:

“The region near the epicenter is sparsely populated but small villages are nestled in valleys and often difficult to access,” continues Keji Ribao. Around 6,900 people live in 27 villages scattered within a 20 kilometer radius of the epicenter. At least a thousand houses and buildings collapsed, adds CGTN, which specifies that around fifty ISP replicas