The authorities of the Chinese autonomous region of Tibet have updated this Friday the balance of the earthquake of magnitude 7 on the Richter scale registered hours earlier, raising the number of injured to 65 and maintaining the death toll at 16. At the same time, they have confirmed that nearly 12,500 people have already been relocated outside the affected area.
The Emergency Command Center of the autonomous region of Tibet has released a new count of those affected, in which only the number of injured increases, going from the 32 initially reported to 65. Of these, eleven have serious injuries and 54 are minor injuries, according to the Chinese news agency Xinhua.
The earthquake, whose epicenter has been located in Baqing County, belonging to the prefecture-level city of Nagqu, has caused damage to a total of 339 homes. However, the detailed assessment of the damages, the rescue efforts, and the resettlement tasks for the affected residents are still ongoing.
Regarding the evacuations, the authorities have launched a broad operation to remove the population from the risk areas, which, at 10 in the morning (local time), had already reached 12,489 people, according to the data provided by the regional Emergency Command Center.