CHAUTARA, Nepal — Officials with bullhorns walked through the quake-damaged streets of this small Nepal town on Wednesday, calling for people to leave the damaged buildings. The evacuation orders came a day after Nepal, just beginning to rebuild after a devastating April 25 earthquake, was hit by magnitude-7.3 quake. Tuesday's earthquake killed at least 65 people, injured nearly 2,000 and caused landslides that blocked roads and slowed the delivery of relief supplies. “There is danger!” the officials called out over the bullhorns. “Leave the buildings!“ Most people, though, had fled into the open the day before, and had spent the night in tents or under plastic tarps. Tuesday's quake battered Chautara, a foothills town that became a hub for rescuers and humanitarian aid after the first earthquake. Officials there said at least three people had died on Tuesday and more than 60 were injured. Tuesday's magnitude-7.3 quake, centered between Kathmandu and Mount Everest, struck hardest in the foothills of the Himalayas. Most of the 65 people confirmed dead by Wednesday morning were in Dolakha district, northeast of Kathmandu, said the district's chief administrator, Prem Lal Lamichane. “People are terrorized. Everyone is scared here. They spent the night out in the open,” Lamichane said, adding the administration was running out of relief material. He asked the government to send more helicopters and supplies, and said there were many injured people stranded in villages. Tuesday's quake also left nearly 2,000 injured, according to the Home Ministry's latest count. But that toll was expected to rise as reports trickled in of people in isolated Himalayan towns and villages being buried under rubble, according to the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Tremors radiated across parts of Asia. In neighboring India, at least 16 people were confirmed dead after rooftops or walls collapsed onto them, according to India's Home Ministry. Chinese media reported one death in Tibet. The magnitude-7.8 earthquake that hit April 25 killed more than 8,150 people and flattened entire villages, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless in the country's worst-recorded quake since 1934. The US Geological Survey said Tuesday's earthquake was the largest aftershock of that quake. — AP
