The death toll included 105 people killed in Jajarkot and 52 in neighboring Rukum West district, both in Karnali province, Rama Acharya, an official in the disaster department of the federal home (interior) ministry, told Reuters on Saturday.
The quake struck the Jajarkot region in the west of the Himalayan nation at 11:47 p.m. (1802 GMT) on Friday with a 6.4 magnitude, Nepal's National Seismological Centre said.
Officials fear the death toll could rise as first responders had reached the hilly area near the epicenter, some 500 km (300 miles) west of the capital Kathmandu, only early on Saturday and began searching for survivors.
"The number of injured could be in the hundreds and the deaths could go up as well," Jajarkot district official Harish Chandra Sharma told Reuters by phone.
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