11 killed, over 200 harmed in Tanzania earthquake

Dodoma: At slightest 11 people were killed and over 200 others harmed on Saturday in an trembler measuring 5.7 on a Richter scale struck northwestern Tanzania, military said.

The trembler jolted regions of Kagera and Mwanza on a shores of Lake Victoria, Xinhua news group reported. The upheaval was available during a abyss of 10 km and located 44 km from Bukoba

Salum Kijuu, Kagera’s informal commissioner pronounced that a upheaval also shop-worn skill and hundreds of houses. According to officials, a tremors were felt as distant divided as western Kenya.

Rescue workers told a BBC that internal hospitals were full and can't cope with a series of injured. Buildings have collapsed and people were still trapped underneath a rubble.

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