Gallery: Quake hits India, Nepal

Nepalese people look on the British Embassy's compound wall collapsed after an earthquake shook northeastern India on Sunday night, in Katmandu, Nepal. Photo: AP
Nepalese people look on the British Embassy's compound wall collapsed after an earthquake shook northeastern India on Sunday night, in Katmandu, Nepal. Photo: AP
Nepalese police walk on a street filled with bricks from quake-damaged houses in Bhaktapur. Photo: Reuters
Nepalese rescue workers and people look on after after the British Embassy's compound wall collapsed reportedly killing three pedestrians following an earthquake in Katmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011. A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 hit northeastern India on Sunday near the border with Nepal. Reports said several people were injured and some buildings fell in the capital of India's Sikkim state. In neighboring Nepal and Bangladesh, the quake sent residents rushing out their homes, offices and shopping centers. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)
A man who was injured in a building collapse that followed an earthquake is treated at a hospital in Siliguri, India. Photo: AP
Residents survey their quake-damaged houses in Bhaktapur. A magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit a remote Himalayan region in northern India on Sunday evening, killing at least four people and seven in neighbouring Nepal as well as damaging buildings and blocking roads, officials said. Photo: Reuters
A man shows a crack on a quake-damaged house in Bhaktapur. Photo: Reuters
Subhadra Pathi, 70, collects bricks outside her house a day after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake hits Bhaktapur. Photo: Reuters
A woman, who was injured by a stampede after an earthquake, is carried to a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Siliguri. Photo: Reuters
A resident shows a crack on the wall of a quake-damaged house in Bhaktapur. Photo: Reuters
Residents are seen through the window of a quake-damaged house in Bhaktapur. Photo: Reuters
Nepalese children and other people stand near the debris of collapsed buildings damaged by an earthquake that shook northeastern India on Sunday night, in Katmandu, Nepal. Photo: AP
People walk past collapsed buildings damaged by an earthquake that shook northeastern India. Photo: AP
Nepalese men remove debris of collapsed buildings damaged by an earthquake that shook northeastern India on Sunday night, in Katmandu, Nepal. Photo: AP
Nepalese man removes debris of collapsed buildings damaged by an earthquake in Katmandu, Nepal. Photo: AP

Published Sep 19, 2011

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit a remote Himalayan region in northern India, killing at least four people and seven in neighbouring Nepal.

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit a remote Himalayan region in northern India, killing at least four people and seven in neighbouring Nepal as well as damaging buildings and blocking roads.