Jharkhand Director General of Police Anurag Gupta said that "a burden has been lifted from the earth" after dreaded Naxal leader Pappu Lohra and zonal commander Prabhat Ganjhu were killed in an encounter with police in Latehar district.
According to NCS, the earthquake struck at a depth of 20 kilometres. The NCS said that the earthquake occurred at latitude 29.19 N and longitude 87.06 E.
"We have decided to teach a lesson to Turkey and Azerbaijan, the countries that helped Pakistan. We helped Turkey in the earthquake through Operation Dost. Today, it helped our enemy and fired shells, drones and missiles at us," Bhupendra Jain, president of the Confederation of All India
Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli inaugurated the three-day event, where he said that saving the mountains is synonymous with saving the earth, oceans, and humanity as a whole.