An elderly woman died and 23 other people were injured after a strong earthquake shook northern Thailand, officials said earlier today, as aftershocks continued to rattle the mountainous region popular with tourists.
The 83-year-old woman died when a wall in her house collapsed after the 6.0-magnitude struck quake on Monday afternoon, according to an official at the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department in Bangkok. “Twenty-three people were also injured in separate incidents caused by the quake,” the official told the media, without giving further details.
The quake, which struck at a shallow depth of just 7.4 kilometres (4.5 miles), had its epicentre in the remote Phan district of Chiang Rai province.
