Quake strands 137 climbers on Malaysian peak

Malaysian authorities raced yesterday to try to reach 137 people, some of them injured, who were stranded atop the popular climbing peak of Mount Kinabalu after a strong earthquake triggered dangerous rockfalls.

The 6.0-magnitude quake struck near the mountain around 7:15 am yesterday, jolting a wide area of the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo island.

No deaths or major damage had been reported as of late yesterday afternoon.