Almost 100 residential buildings in two regions of Tajikistan were destroyed and several dozen more buildings were damaged as a result of the earthquake that struck the country on April 13, killing one child, the Crisis Management Center of the Committee for Emergencies and Civil Defense of the government of the republic reported.
According to preliminary data, 40 residential buildings were completely destroyed in five villages in the Rasht region, 5 residential buildings, 3 teahouses and 1 auxiliary school building were partially destroyed. In addition, a three-year-old child died in the village of Ushturpast after being crushed by a house wall.
Yesterday at 6:24 a.m. Bulgarian time, an earthquake was registered in Tajikistan with an epicenter 160 km northeast of Dushanbe, 21 km east of the Rasht region. The strength of the tremor at the epicenter reached the sixth degree on the Richter scale.