Scores killed in Kyrgyzstan quake

A powerful earthquake struck Central Asia, destroying a village in Kyrgyzstan and killing at least 60 people, emergency officials said today.

The 6.6-magnitude quake near the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan hit the remote village of Nura hard, bringing down dozens of buildings and injuring more than 100 people in addition to the confirmed deaths, Emergency Situations Minister Kamchybek Tashiyev said.