AKIPRESS.COM - A 6.0-magnitude earthquake has struck near Malaysia’s Mount Kinabalu on Borneo, injuring climbers on the popular peak and leaving more than 200 stranded by rockfalls, officials and local reports said.

State officials were quoted by the New Straits Times saying at least four climbers had suffered injuries including broken bones and head wounds as the quake loosened stones and boulders on the 4,095-metre (13,435-ft) mountain’s wide granite crown, reports

Authorities have ordered an estimated 200 climbers and at least 40 local guides to remain at the summit due to continuing danger from falling stones and because rockfalls had rendered at least one key descent route impassable.

Fire and rescue officials said the climbers included both foreigners and Malaysians, according to local news reports.

The force of the tremor was so strong that it snapped off one of the two “Donkey’s Ear” rock outcroppings that form a distinctive part of the peak’s craggy profile, tourism minister for Sabah state Masidi Manjun said on his Twitter feed.

Bad news confirmed! part of the iconic 'Donkey's Ear' @Mount Kinabalu is gone due to strong tremor this morning pic.twitter.com/Mhrqr5k1fN

— Masidi Manjun (@MasidiM) June 5, 2015