11 passed in India, Nepal after quake

New Delhi (CNN) — At slightest 18 people — 13 in India and 5 in Nepal — died when a magnitude-6.9 trembler struck a northern Indian state of Sikkim nearby a limit between a dual nations Sunday night, internal supervision officials told sister network CNN-IBN.

The passed embody 3 in Nepal’s collateral of Kathmandu, who died when a wall of a British embassy collapsed, according to Kedar Rijal, Kathmandu military chief. They enclosed an 8-year-old girl, her father and a third person.

The British Foreign Office reliable a “compound fringe wall” of a embassy collapsed, adding that a envoy has met with a village and offering condolences.

Police pronounced in a matter that dual some-more people died in a Nepalese city of Dhara, about 217 miles easterly of Kathmandu. About a dozen people were harmed when they jumped from their houses during a quake, military said.

On Sunday, Sikkim’s arch secretary Karma Gyatso pronounced that 6 people had died in that range and 33 were injured. But that fee has risen since, supervision officials told CNN-IBN, with fatalities reported opposite several opposite Indian provinces. The network pronounced a passed embody during slightest dual Indian army personnel.

At slightest dual buildings in Sikkim had collapsed and others grown cracks, Gyatso said. The repairs was still being assessed as first-responders and others worked to find and assistance survivors, he said.

By early Monday, 300 civilians had been discovered in one such bid nearby Sikkim’s limit with China, pronounced Indo-Tibetan Border Police orator Deepak Kumar Pandey. Some 22 tourists — all of them Indians — were also discovered in a same area.

The deaths and repairs came after a sum of 3 quakes struck a segment in fast period in a alpine region.

The U.S. Geological Survey primarily put a largest upheaval during 6.8 magnitude, after upgrading it to a 6.9, and a other dual during magnitudes 4.8 and 4.6. All 3 occurred within an hour and 15 minutes, a U.S. group said. The India Meteorological Department pronounced a quakes were 6.8 magnitude, 5.7 bulk and 5.3 magnitude.

The quakes set off landslides, that — along with complicated rains — were restraint roads and hampering rescue efforts, Pandey said. He voiced fears that a toll, as distant as deaths and damage, could be some-more than is now known, expecting some-more will be famous once a object rises Monday.

Already, authorities have reported energy outages and downed phone lines in Sikkim.

Emergency crews were dispatched from opposite locations to a region, India’s home method pronounced in an warning to reporters. At slightest 4 warrior jets were carrying rescue officers to a adjacent region, where they transport by highway to Gangtok, Sikkim’s capital, according to a alert.

As for outward help, World Vision announced Sunday that it “has put a puncture response group in India on standby” to yield service as requested. The nonprofit classification reported that a upheaval cut off phone communication and electricity in tools of Sikkim and West Bengal provinces.

“The whole earth was jolt and it lasted for dual minutes,” Paul Mathai from World Vision, who was 130 kilometers (80 miles) from a epicenter, pronounced in a matter from a organization. “We were panicked, though all of us are safe.”

No tsunami warning was issued. The strongest earthquake, that struck during 6:10 p.m. internal time (8:40 a.m. ET), was 12.2 miles next a earth’s surface, according to a USGS.

That quake’s epicenter was about 42 miles from a city of Gangtok and 169 miles easterly of Kathmandu, according to a geological survey.

CNN’s Harmeet Singh, Manesh Shrestha and Bharati Naik contributed to this report.