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Up to 65 killed in Kyrgyzstan 6.6-magnitude earthquake
 Bishkek, October 6 (MIA) - A 6.6-magnitude earthquake killed up to 65 people in Kyrgyzstan and wrecked dozens of homes in the rural and mountainous south of the Central Asian state, the emergency ministry said on Monday. The epicenter of the quake struck the Ferghana valley, a populated trading region at the corner of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and China.
According to a US Geological Survey the quake that hit at 1552 GMT measured 6.6 Richter scale at a depth of 35 kilometres.
An Emergency Ministry spokesman said 65 people were killed and another 50 people were injured in the mountain town of Nura along Kyrgyzstan's border with China, where at least 120 homes were destroyed, news agency Interfax reported.
The village of Nura is "almost completely destroyed," said ministry spokesman Kamchibek Tashiev.
"Getting aide to victims is made difficult by remoteness of the villages which were affected by the earthquake ... the nearest point providing medical aid is 76 kilometres from Nura," he said.
Earthquakes are frequent in the region. A 6-point magnitude quake jolted the nearby Uzbek capital of Tashkent this August though it brought little damage.
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